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The DadPad app provides a dedicated place for new dads and dads-to-be to embrace their role as a new parent, offering guidance, advice, and the essential knowledge to navigate the journey of parenthood.
The app considers the unique needs and perspectives of dads, helping to address common anxieties and fears, build confidence, and to overall support dads to make deep and meaningful connections with their baby and family.
The app covers a range of topics (highlighted below) as well as linking dads to local and national support and services to meet wider needs (eg-isolation, domestic abuse, substance misuse, income, housing, etc).
What's in the DadPad App?
- Local Services (Midwifery/Health Visitors)
- The Human Baby: What’s it all about?!
- Dad’s role in Breastfeeding
- Holding and handling your baby
- Caring for a crying baby
- Surviving without sleep
- Safer sleeping
- Cleaning and washing your baby
- Getting to know your baby
- Mental Health: Getting through the first few months
- And many more!
The new version of the app now also provides a dedicated ‘community’ section for dads to access, ask questions, connect together, and to share their own experiences of fatherhood with other Barnsley dads.
How to access the DadPad app
- Visit the DadPad website to to download the new app via iPhone or android.
- Once downloaded, open the app to register and then use.
- Registration is FREE for Barnsley dads (and all Barnsley postcodes).