One of the first things I noticed when we embarked on this great adventure was just how tailed to Mum everything seemed to be.

I get it, they’re likely to be the ones doing the majority of the caregiving, but still, as a hands-on dad I couldn’t help but feel a little…pushed out by things. Nothing massive for sure, but little things like how a good chunk of the online resources are written as if Mum is reading exclusively. Or how pretty much every baby group in my area is advertised as a Mum and Baby group. It’s far from the end of the world, but it can be pretty intimidating and unwelcoming to a new Dad.

  • Exocrinous@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Your efforts benefit us all, fathers, mothers, non-parents

    And nonbinary parents. Don’t ostracize the nonbinary parents

    • Jho@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I’m non-binary myself. Some non-binary folks are comfortable using gendered terms like “father” and “mother” for themselves.

      But I will edit the original comment to include a gender-neutral term for those who wouldn’t describe themselves as such. My intention was to say that this is something that benefits everyone but I am not communicating that, so thank you for highlighting that to me.