Code | Sub-category | Category |
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• Providing settings for sufficient rest time for wife • Provide massages to wife during pregnancy | Physical care of wife during pregnancy | Help in maintaining the health of the mother and fetus |
• Avoid smoking at home during pregnancy • Considering their wives’ condition during sexual intercourse | Maintaining the health of the mother and fetus | |
• Reduce daily overtime and arrive home earlier • Continuous presence alongside spouse at end of pregnancy | Increase the presence of husbands at home during pregnancy | |
• Make sure wife eats sufficient, nutritious and healthy food during pregnancy • Realize importance of feeding pregnant wife | Concern for the mother’s nutrition during pregnancy | |
• Provide the necessary clothing and equipment for wife during pregnancy • Provide cost of perinatal care and paraclinical measures | Meeting the financial needs of the mother during pregnancy and delivery | |
• Accompany mother to pregnancy classes • Accept an active role in health care decisions | Accompanying the mother to prenatal classes and during pregnancy check-ups, delivery and postpartum care | |
• Be empathetic and companionable to wife in the event of complications in pregnancy • Understand the condition of wife in having nausea and vomiting during pregnancy • Be empathic and participate with wife in the event of a high risk pregnancy | Empathy with mother | Emotional support of mother |
• Do not create tension at home during the perinatal period • Consider the emotional and physical conditions of the mother when inviting guests during pregnancy • Help the wife create a positive mental image of her body | Providing peace of mind for mother during pregnancy | |
• Use proper language when talking to pregnant wife • Do not order wife about or be aggressive towards her during pregnancy | Practicing good behavior and manners during pregnancy | |
• Verbally express appreciation of wife to tolerate pregnancy and childbirth • Show appreciation of wife by giving gifts during pregnancy and childbirth | Showing appreciation for his wife’s efforts during pregnancy and after delivery | |
• Do not reduce attention to mother after childbirth (and increase attention to child) • Understand the emotional needs of wife in postpartum period | Provision of wife’s emotional needs after delivery | |
• Correct management of postpartum blues after delivery • Provide mental relaxation for wife and child after delivery at home | Appropriate management of postpartum emotional problems | |
• Participate in the care of the other children during pregnancy • Help with cooking and wash dishes | Husband’s participation in home and life affairs | Comprehensive participation of father in married life |
• Reduce expectations regarding a wife’s duties about laundry and cooking • Avoid argument with wife about not being able to do housework or cook | Lower expectations about houswork of the wife during pregnancy | |
• Accompany a working pregnant woman on the way to and from work • Prepare environment for wife to rest after working outside the home | Accompanying the working mother to and from work during pregnancy | |
• Plan for a well-equipped childbirth center for delivery of baby • Transfer his wife to the hospital in-time | Planning for delivery | Preparing for safe delivery |
• Active presence alongside wife during childbirth • Presence beside wife in the time after childbirth | Presence of the husband beside his wife during delivery | |
• Be supportive of baby’s first breastfeeding in hospital • Provide kangaroo care if necessary after delivery | Husband’s participation in mother’s and infant’s care after delivery in the hospital | Postpartum support |
• Provide companionship during breastfeeding at night • Provide a proper diet for a mother who is breastfeeding | Husband’s participation in breastfeeding | |
• Take paternal leave to care for wife and baby in the early days after childbirth • Help by changing diapers and bathing baby | Husband’s participation in mother and infant care at home after delivery |