Experts underline that the active presence of Postpartum strengthens family bond and improves maternal mental health
A recent study by Northwestern University, Published in March 2025, he revealed that parents who take at least two weeks of paternity leave increase the possibilities that their partners continue breastfeeding up to eight weeks after childbirth. The research, conducted with 240 parents employed in Georgia, USAIt highlights the importance of paternal involvement in the success of breastfeeding.
Improvement of the family environment
The pediatrician Dr. Paulo saysmember Brasilian Society of Pediatrics (SBP) and ambassador of Copai movement. Paternity license coalitionHe underlines that the presence of the father is essential to provide a more favorable environment for breastfeeding.
“Several studies show that man’s participation, everyone supports, during prenatal and puerperium generate greater emotional support, reducing mother’s stress and increasing trust to feed the child”, detail.
THE Dra. Juliana Alvespediatrician and neonatologist specialized in Supplementary pediatricsstrengthens that the support of the Father also helps in the daily life of creation: “He nBreastfeeding, but it can do many other things, such as putting the child rotating, changing the diaper or offering milk so that the woman can rest. This active participation strengthens the link between man and child, contributing to the structural and emotional formation of the family. “
In addition, the paid family license policies have been associated with improvements for breastfeeding and health benefits. Node BrazilThe standard paternity license is only five days, which, according to experts, is not enough for the father to establish a solid link with the child and offer the necessary support to the mother.
“It is little! Impossible to know the child correctly in this period. How do you learn to take care, support, create bonds and love in such a short time?” He says. Therefore, the doctor defends the expansion of the removal.
Beyond breastfeeding
Ademia, Alves adds that even a longer paternity license contributes to reducing gender inequality on work and housework. “The mother ends up being overwhelmed by the care of the child and the house. The father has to go to work and often there is no one else there. This is also unequal for men and women fight for the same space in the market “, He says.
The expansion of paternity leave is a question of public health, gender equity and well -being. The active involvement of the paternal figure since the first days of the life of the child has long -lasting benefits for the whole family.
*Text by Michelly Souza, from Update Comunicição
Source: Terra
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