5 Sep 2025

Checking in on new dads

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 5 September 2025

It's Father's Day on Sunday, so what better time to chat about fatherhood. Healthy parents are key to a child's development .. but it's not always easy becoming a new mum or a new dad. A research team in Christchurch has spoken to dads whose babies spent time in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), to see how they're coping. It's for their NICU Dads study which is about to launch. Dr Suzy Hodgson leads the Fatherhood Research Team at Ara Institute of Canterbury.