Before birth
- Accompany your partner to important appointments (e.g. antenatal classes or medical check-ups)
- Inform your employer in time and apply for parental leave, if applicable
- Prepare your home for the baby (changing unit with radiant heater, bassinet, child’s bedroom...)
- Offer your support in filling out forms related to baby and the hospital
Coming home
- When picking up mummy and baby from the hospital, remember to have the baby seat and a blanket in the car
- Having arrived at home, mum will certainly be delighted with a “welcome”- bouquet of flowers
- Offer to bathe, change and walk the baby, to get closer to the baby and to unburden the mother
- Also help with everyday chores like shopping, cooking and doing the laundry
- Coordinate visits with the mum. Either you can look after guests yourself or you ask friends to visit at a later time, when your daily routine has normalized a bit more
