The Eleventh Month of Fatherhood

• Write a list, just for yourself, of the positive and negative feelings about your first eleven months of fatherhood. Allow your self permission to see all the changes you have gone through have not been easy.
• Begin to think about you baby's first birthday and what friends you want to be there for you!

Bruce Linton, Ph.D. is founder and director of the Fathers' Forum programs for expectant and new fathers. He is a former contributing editor to "Full-Time-Dads" magazines, and columnist for Parents' News in San Francisco, California. He is the author of Finding Time for Fatherhood. Bruce is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and received his doctorate for his research on men's development as fathers.

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