Steve congrats on the new edition!

Thanks for the positive words about the site glad to know we are all contributing to fathers lives.

I think you should help start a Tauranga dads coffee group if you are able? Do you know of any other fathers in that area??

We have updates everyday and try to encourage anyone and everyone to write in with an article big or small we all learn when someone shares.

If there is anything I can help you with as a recent new dad of a 7 week old actually right about this time then I would love to hear from you and will help where i can

Thanks Scott

Hey Nick

Thanks so much and congrats on being a new dad!

As a teenage dad we would love to hear from you especially as this isnt coverage much on the site, so if you could we would love to hear what its like being a teen dad and any issues you have faced good or bad, other readers would like to hear from you also i would say.

In relation to the babies routine can i suggest a book called "Save our Sleep" by Tizzie Hall and you can order it from www.thesleepstore.co.nz - I really recommend it, im not a reader of books by no means hence the reason i thought of this website, but mate its great for the routine, you will never look back and in no time you will have your boy feeding once per night!

Would you like us to put you down for the Northland Fathers Coffee Group? Also if you know of any fathers up there who may want to join this also?

If there is anything on the site which is missing that you would like to see more of please just let me know

Thanks Scott

I also saw this website being featured on Campbell Live, and I have to say I was ecstatic! I'm 30, and in around 6 and a half months I'll be a Dad for the first time (Well, kind of - my fiancee has a four year old, and so I've been getting used to being around him since last December)

I've been swinging between being totally over the moon and utterly petrified since I found out, and, as I discovered quite quickly, support for men IS close to non-existent. My partner is a member of the EBB forums, and I joined their Dad's forum, only to find out that there are only really two men posting in it, and the posts are generally few and far between. This kind of website, however, is definitely a step in the right direction, constant updates, relevant stories and articles and just a great atmosphere! I've already bookmarked it!!

I'm in Tauranga, and I'd love to be able to join a Dad's coffee group at some point. Here's hoping that enough guys take a look and speak up

Hey, i just saw about this website on Campbell Live (TV3 7.30) and it was such a coincidence that my first baby boy was born last saturday. Being a young 18 year old with an even younger partner i jumped at the chance to checkout this website.

I loved the updates on the baby routine's as we have just started to get our son into one as i have to get up for work this weekend when i start back there. My hardest lesson was not to run everytime he cried.

A dads coffee group would be great, but living in northland would be hard to start one up, and a dads coffee group is unheard of even in Auckland let alone up north.

Love the site keep it up.

Nick

Hey

We are slowly getting a few stay home dads out of the "closet" as such!

I want to have more dads coffee groups - I always joked to my wife that i would be the envy of my male friends going to a mums coffee group - just me with a group of women, but at this stage i havent been invited, i asked a coffee group but that didnt happen so what do you do as a father?

If there is any support that you are missing we want to hear from you??

Thanks for your support and looking forward to hearing from you!

Scott

There are heaps of resources for mothers and a dearth of support for fathers. This problem is certainly not confined to the net. Although my partner attends a half dozen mum's support groups, I haven't found any (except this one). I could attend the mum's groups -- mommy and me yoga, mum's coffee groups, etc. -- but how fun would that be? When I have gone along, I seem to be more of a distraction than a "part of." I need support more than information anyway, and mum's groups don't exactly fit the bill. So, thanks for the web site and I hope it helps get stay-at-home dads out of the closet.

Hey

Yes we have a lot more install for DIYFather.com but firstly we cant wait to get more people to the site.

We would love to hear any other ideas that you would like to see on the site - we arent just a forum but we have decided to start here.

Great we would love to hear from a teen father - do you know of any??

We want this site to be as diverse and extensive so we can give fathers the support they need.

NB:50% of the parents out their are fathers!

Look forward to hearing from you

Scott

I'd actually like to see more dads getting involved themselves. This is about changing a false perception in society that having babies is primarily something that mothers need help with.

There is much more needed for fathers than just a forum. But it is great start. Our local Budget adviser says she is getting a lot of young teen fathers coming in because the mothers are not helping or have taken off mostly because of drug use.

Fathers have been neglected for so long now that they are discriminated against on a human rights level.

Fathers have nothing compared to the support mothers have.

The communities at Council level need to step up since the Government won't.