THESE PHOTOS OF FATHERS DOING SKIN-TO-SKIN WITH THEIR NEWBORNS WILL MAKE YOUR DAY…

If anything is emblematic of modern fatherhood, you can’t get better than a photo — often taken on a mobile — of a blissful-looking dad, shirt unbuttoned, cradling against his chest an equally blissful-looking newborn.

It’s the Instagram-generation version of the Athena poster pinned to many bedroom walls in the early Nineties. No, not the one of the flashing tennis player, but the other one: of the strapping male model holding a baby, contrasting big man with small baby, strength with fragility, and rugged with peachy-soft.

‘The skin-to-skin moment is the first time they connect physically with the baby.’

For many fathers, the skin-to-skin moment is the first time they connect physically with the baby. While the mother has felt every kick, twinge and somersault, fathers can be short-changed as contrary babies stop in their tracks the moment dad’s hand hovers anywhere near the bump.

They will meet their baby the moment she is delivered, but the true bonding moment often comes… Read more on www.tantrum.xyz