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Coast is our cool and durable carrycot/pushchair travel system which features stylish detailing and premium marl fabrics. Coast is fully accessorised with a co-ordinating deeply padded footmuff and super practical pram bag.
Tide is our new multi-terrain pushchair with an overnight sleeping approved carrycot, reversible multi-recline pushchair seat and effortless freestanding fold.
Introducing the all new Wave, our future-proof travel system that’s designed especially for growing families.
Suburban, stylish, sustainable – Reef is our multi-terrain travel system offering the ultimate in baby comfort no matter where your adventures take you.
Dune, our contemporary and compact urban travel system proves there’s no need to compromise when it comes to style and functionality.
Add an award-winning Dream i-Size Infant Carrier & Base with your Coast pushchair, designed for everyday strolls
Our lightest, most compact multi-terrain pushchair, Tide is made for exploring. Includes Accessory pack with a changing rucksack, footmuff, phone holder and cup holder.
Our lightest, most compact multi-terrain pushchair, Tide is made for exploring. With 4-wheel suspens...
Our lightest, most compact multi-terrain pushchair, Tide is made for exploring. With 4-wheel suspens...
Everything you need with your Wave pram including Dream i-Size infant carrier & base, changing bag, footmuff, phone holder and snack tray
Turn your Wave pram into a Travel System with an award-winning Dream i-Size infant carrier
Everything you need with your Reef pram including a First Bed Folding Carrycot, Dream i-Size infant carrier, changing bag, footmuff, phone holder and snack tray
Reef, our multi-terrain travel system offering the ultimate in baby comfort no matter where your adventures take you with its freestanding fold, first bed folding carrycot and off road wheels with a travel pack
Everything you need with your Dune pram including a First Bed Folding Carrycot, Dream i-Size infant carrier, changing bag, footmuff, phone holder and snack tray
Combine your Dune pram with a Newborn Pod and an award-winning Dream i-Size infant carrier and Travel pack.
Everything you need with your Dune pram including a Compact Folding Carrycot, Dream i-Size infant carrier, changing bag, footmuff, phone holder and snack tray
Combine your Dune pram with a Compact Folding Carrycot and an award-winning Dream i-Size infant carrier
For everyday strolls with a one hand fold
Upgrade your daily strolls with Zest, our everyday pushchair offering style and comfort for both parents and babies.
Makes mealtimes fun
Eat&Play is the 4-in-1 highchair and play table that does it all. Transforming effortlessly from...
For snacking, weaning and playtime
Start you little one's weaning journey
Awarded the safest infant carrier for your newborn by ADAC, when used with the Dream i-Size base
The only 360° rotating car seat you need, suitable from birth to approx. 12 years
The multi-stage car seat, growing with your child from 15 months to approx. 12 years of age
Our high-back booster seat from 4 to 12 years old, approved to the latest R129/03 safety standard
Simple and beautiful, the Bromley nursery furniture collection offers the perfect canvas for creatin...
Create the best nursery for your little one to nap, play and grow with the Bromley Oak 3-piece nurse...
Special edition auto-folding super stroller.
Special edition 360° rotating, all stage car seat.
Special edition one-pop travel cot, co-sleeper and playpen.
“Perinatal mental health problems are those which occur during pregnancy or in the first year following the birth of a child. Perinatal mental illness affects up to 20% of new and expectant mums and covers a wide range of conditions. If left untreated, mental health issues can have significant and long-lasting effects on the woman, the child, and the wider family. Specialist PMH services provide care and treatment for women with complex mental health needs and support the developing relationship between parent and baby. They also offer women with mental health needs advice for planning a pregnancy”
This is taken directly from the NHS website. It raises important points from the off, but nowhere in there does it mention dads. Yes, it highlights ‘extended family’ but it’s a sad state of affairs when in 2021, fathers are considered as extended family...
So, my question is, where is the support for dads?
According to Mind, only women can be diagnosed with postnatal depression but let’s not get too caught up on diagnosis... that’s not what this article is about. This article is about the struggles fathers can experience in the first year of having a baby, and even during pregnancy.
Postnatal depression in men can show itself in different ways.
The good news is that it is treated the same in men as it is in women. Most people would be offered the psychotropic medication to help elevate those symptoms of anxiety and depression, and others will be offered talking therapies.
The issue we still have is that the general consensus is men are there to support the partner and baby after birth. Even after the most beautiful and natural birth it can be traumatic for the mum and yes, rightly so, men should support their partners and babies, but not to their own detriment. Men are still left feeling like they can’t talk and this is either down to them feeling like they shouldn’t because of that old English saying ‘talking is weak’, or it could simply be some men are not in tune with their emotions, feelings and moods and have a tendency to bury it all.
All fathers should take an active interest in the birthing process and attend antenatal classes with their partner (if you’ve decided to go to them) to learn how to support mum and baby – but this simply isn’t enough. These classes don’t educate men on their mental health and what they can potentially experience, which is where the biggest change needs to happen.
There are of course other risk factors associated with men and suffering with symptoms of postnatal depression. These are things like history of depression, marital discord, poverty, maternal depression, unintended pregnancy and sleep deprivation.
In 2015, a National Childbirth Trust (NCT) survey of new parents found one in three fathers said they were concerned about their mental health. Yet postnatal depression in fathers still lacks recognition. In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which guides clinicians and NHS commissioners on treatment, sees postnatal depression as explicitly maternal. The World Health Organisation (WHO) also recommends screening for women only.
A petition, led by the Fathers Reaching Out Group which campaigns for more understanding of fathers’ mental health issues, is asking NICE to change its guidelines.
Our app, known as DadAF, was developed in the idea of this diversity, because at the time there wasn’t really anywhere for dads to go. Its mission is to support dads by creating an open and friendly space to discuss their parental, relational or mental health needs, with an outreach of nearly 90,000 users so far. On the app we have a self-referral form for IAPT for those that live in England. And the Hub of Hope is a database that houses a range of support networks for people which they can access local to their area.
Nathan is a parent of one who adopts a more gentle side towards life and parenting. A psychotherapist by profession he works in both the private sector as well as with charities to improve mental health. With this backing he is proud to be the mental health advocate and Co-Founder of Dadnatal.