Expecting Dad Survey Shows How Men Are Reading Up On Their New Position!

Online, March 5, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The results of a survey targeting the expecting dad have shown that around half of the men asked, around 50% of them had very little knowledge/experience in how to care for a newborn baby. Something very interesting is that 52.6% of these fathers to be believe that common sense is enough and that they would automatically know how to care for their newborn. However, 67.6% of the expecting dad group would use books as a tool to prepare them for the coming of their newborn and 29.7% said they would consider this, leaving only 2.7% who actually said no to using this sort of resource!

Other expecting Dad and first time Dad surveys have shown that 9 out of 10 fathers attend the birth of their child. Research has shown that when fathers read, play, engage and encourage their children, the better the child will do in the future.

A staggering 55.3% of these men said, the thing that they most wanted to avoid was being the same sort of dad that their dad was! Studies have shown this is most likely due to a change in the mindset of the expecting dad. In the past, Dads and an expecting dad weren't encouraged as much to play as big a part in their baby's childhood as the mother. The father's main contribution to the child was a financial one, which of course is important, but more and more fathers and the first time expectant dad are beginning to realise that probably the most important aspect is spending time with your child and helping them to develop.

A new website aimed at helping the expecting Dad is the aptly named expecting dad.org
This site has gained a good readership since it went live online as it is full of lots of useful information, such as videos and articles to help you learn and get the facts on how to take care of your new baby and how to handle actually being an expecting Dad! There are many other methods rather than just books on fatherhood that can help you to prepare such as courses designed for fathers to be; taking care of your newborn from birth to homecoming. These courses are designed to inform the expecting Dad (and mum) of things such as the impact your child can have on your relationship, helping you to understand why the role of a father is a very important one, and also helps with the basics such as feeding, bathing and changing your newborn. The website, expectingdad.org provides information on these things and shows you where to go for the best products, such as books on being an expecting Dad, and also for preparing you for being a father.

You can view the results of these surveys and research studies at places such as diyfather.com (search for expecting Dad survey) and workingwithmen.org.uk (search for expecting Dad), where some information for this expecting dad presses releases was gathered. It may be useful if you bookmark these sites, using your favourite bookmarking tool, such as Onlywire.

More resources: You can get RSS feeds from most of the sites mentioned, which will keep you up to date with expecting Dad articles etc. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" and is a frequently updated feed for such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video-in a standardized format. You can find out more about RSS at Wikipedia or eHow.

A press release prepared for Expecting Dad - www.expecting Dad.org