We need to stop heaping praise on fathers for doing the basic job of looking after their own children A lot of people seem to praise fathers for doing the bare minimum (Photo: Getty) I vividly remember being dragged to a hen party 13 weeks after giving birth. I was still in a fog of post-natal depression and would rather have poked my eyes out with a rusty spoon than attend. Yet, wanting to appear as if everything was fine, I went along.
The other women tried their best, but I didn’t enjoy it. What I remember most was how often they congratulated my absent husband for “babysitting” his own infant for the one night I was away..
