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.
The only one that really got me was the mother and baby groups. Most of them didn’t have enough information on the posters to know if it was mothers only, or if it was just badly named.
As it turned out, they tended to clash with existing baby groups that I went to, so it wasn’t a massive problem.