Claudia Uribe-Torres

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Title: Paternal biological marker and wellbeing status of father

Abstract

In recent decades, strategies and interventions have focused on promoting and maintaining maternal well-being during pregnancy and childbirth, with the consequent success in early parenting and positive results in the bio-psycho-affective development of the baby. Today it is also necessary to inquire about the father, and establish the importance of neuroendocrine biological markers and psychological factors (well-being) of the father who has been involved throughout the pregnancy and childbirth process, and how this could impact on co-parenting and child care.

In the last 5 years we have been working in the line of positive paternity, exploring from qualitative research the phenomenon of active paternal participation from pregnancy, birth and the baby’s care during the first month. At the same time, we conducted a quantitative pilot study to identify how fathers engage in the birth process after receiving a prenatal parenting intervention. Depending on the variation of the paternal oxytocin (OT) level, it would be possible to evaluate the response to direct exposure of the father with his newborn at the birth time, mainly during skin-to-skin physical contact. From this pilot study it was concluded that men prepared, sensitized and involved with their child since pregnancy would experience variations in the amount of OT when they make skin-to-skin contact between father and child at the time of delivery.

We hope that in the future we can understand the involvement of the father in childbirth and early parenting, through a model that explains the relationship or interaction of neuroendocrine factors such as OT or cortisol, associated with the positive or negative experience of the father at childbirth and postpartum.

Biography

Claudia Uribe-Torres graduated as a midwife from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC); She has a Master of Science and a PhD in Health Care Sciences from the Universidade de Sa?o Paulo, Brazil (USP). She has been a PUC academic for around 30 years, teaching and researching women's health and the area of comprehensive care during childbirth and birth. Her scientific production has been published in WoS and Scopus scientific journals. She is the main author of the Maternal Well-Being at Childbirth Scale, wich is disseminated mainly in Hispanic countries.

She is currently developing the Paternal Well-being at Childbirth Scale.

Research interest:

Maternal & Paternal childbirth experience

Father-child skin to skin contact experience at childbirth

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