Professor Rilling discusses how rough and tumble play helps children build trust, form secure attachments, and regulate their emotions. Personal anecdotes from a father of two highlight the challenges and rewards of fatherhood. The chapter also highlights the support services provided by Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia (Panda).
During pregnancy and then in childbirth, new mums experience some dramatic hormonal changes.
But while these changes in women are relatively well studied … there’s a growing body of evidence finding that biological changes - shifts in hormones and brain activity - happen in men, too.
And these shifts are just one part of the picture.
Men can also experience mental health issues when they become a new dad, like postnatal depression.
On All in the Mind this week, the psychological and biological changes that happen during the transition to fatherhood.