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Current initiatives have promoted a comprehensive mother-child centered care during childbirth. This has been done with the aim to achieve a safe care with high quality outcomes. During the last decade, there is an increasing challenge to involve male parents during childbirth, so they can bond with their newborns. The standard childbirth care acts in a hegemonic manner, where fathers have little or nil preparation for the process. This could bring stressful and ambivalent situations for the emotional wellbeing of male parents. Objectives: To implement an educational and participatory intervention to promote early contact between father and child at childbirth. To know the living experience of male parents who had early contact with their newborns. Methodology: A qualitative study was conducted, based on a reflective and critical paradigm and using an action research method. Twelve male and eleven female parents were involved at this stage. Participants were from two healthcare services, both part of the same healthcare network that served both public and private healthcare users. The exploratory stage included focus groups to understand education needs of parents. After this phase, participants participated in three to four educational sessions that focused on male parents’ participation during childbirth (including labor, delivery and puerperal period). The next stage included open-ended interviews with eight male participants and their partners. These interviews took place after birth and focused on the living experience of childbirth. Results: Seven statements synthesized the prenatal education needs of the group: “Alert to feel it”: parents’ intention to establish contact with their newborns from prenatal period; “An unknown world”: parents’ needs to know more about childbirth; “I want to feel my child”: desire to have physical contact at childbirth; “Touch the child, a difficult task: barriers from their point of view; “How to hold the child”: the need for training when touching their newborns; “How to take care of the child”: the need to learn how to collaborate during the first days after birth; “The father’s place”: from male and female parents’ perspective. The living experience was summarized in four themes: “Next to her and for her”: the experience of fathers during childbirth; “Face to face”: the experience related to the first encounter with the child; “The first physical contact”: a key step in the process; “The effect of the first contact”: on the care and parenting during the first days. Conclusion: parents who received the prenatal participatory preparation can achieve their place during childbirth. Parents can support and help their partners and they can experience their own role during the first encounter with their newborns. These are the most significant outcomes for the male parents.

Investigación acción: Intervención educativa para la promoción del contacto precoz padre-hijo en el contexto del nacimiento