Background and aims: The importance of fathers' participation for development of the child
and the well‐being of the family is recognized from earlier research. In Sweden, legislation …

Research suggests that the attitude of men towards pregnancy, childbirth and child‐caring is
different from that of women. Up to now, research has focused mainly on motherhood. The …

Scand J Caring Sci; 2011; 25; 499–509 Fathering in the first few months Becoming a parent
is a major event in life. Pregnancy is a time when both physical and emotional changes …

Objective To identify and describe first-time fathers' experiences of normal childbirth. Design
A qualitative interview study using a thematic analysis for analysing the transcripts …

Objective: to describe first-time-expectants fathers' experiences of pregnancy. Design: an
inductive method using narrative interview form and qualitative content text analysis. The …

OBJECTIVE: to describe fathers' experiences during childbirth. DESIGN: qualitative method
with phenomenological lifeworld approach. A re-enactment interview method, with open …

We describe Swedish mothers' experiences of having the child's father present during
childbirth. A hermeneutic approach was used to collect data in various districts in …

Knowledge of the experience of parenthood is usually from a woman's perspective. The
resulting outcome is that knowledge about the experience of fatherhood has been limited …

The aim of this study was to describe the experiences of being a father to a prematurely born
infant. Eight fathers of prematurely born children were interviewed using a narrative …

Objective: to describe how fathers who are present during childbirth experience the event,
what they feel during childbirth and how they understand the meaning of childbirth. Design …