Health Promotion Among Families Having a Newborn Baby

Abstract

Pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period are the stressful transition periods to parenthood. With medicalization of perinatal period, parents feel left out and less confident in their parenthood journey, which may pose serious threats to the family dynamics. Salutogenesis theory offers the potential to influence a shift away from negative health outlooks and outcomes, medicalization of childbirth, toward health promotion and positive well-being focus for maternity care services design and delivery in the future.

“Opening up a well of emotions”: A qualitative study of men's emotional experiences in the transition to fatherhood

“…These challenges are regarded as the most common health problems for fathers in the perinatal period (Paulson & Bazemore, 2010; Shorey & Chan, 2020). Studies show that depression, anxiety and parental stress are closely linked, and that the lines between them are blurred (Philpott et al, 2019; Shorey, 2021). Fathers do not tend to link difficult emotions to mental health, but often associate them with practical challenges in relation to lack of sleep, eating habits or trying to manage the work–life balance (Darwin et al, 2017).…”