Identifying four things that fathers need to do, beyond just knowing about breastfeeding: provide practical support; appreciate the mother; be fully present when breastfeeding is happening; and be responsive to what is needed (including knowing when help is not needed).
The last of these is about fathers respecting the mother’s autonomy and her ability to learn her own way to breastfeed. The research asked Canadian mothers (144) and fathers (106) what types of support they received and found that only “responsive” support was related to longer breastfeeding – this kind of support included “paying attention to how much and how your partners wants you to participate in breastfeeding”. (Rempel, Rempel & Moore, 2016).
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