The way your partner supports you during labour has a direct impact on how birth feels.
Not just physically but emotionally.
When you feel supported, everything shifts.
You’re able to stay in it.
To soften into it.
To move through it without feeling like you have to guide, explain, or hold it all yourself.
And that doesn’t end with birth – it carries into those early postpartum days too.
But most partners are never actually shown how to support their partner during labour in a way that feels calm, grounded, and genuinely helpful when it matters most.
A birth partner course designed for the moments that matter
The Fatherhood Project is a birth partner course designed to prepare your partner for labour, birth, and early parenthood.
A practical, grounded approach to birth preparation for partners – helping him feel steady, aware, and confident in how to support you, without needing direction in the moment.
Because this isn’t just about him becoming a father.
It’s about how supported you feel as you move through one of the most important experiences of your life.
What’s included:
Labour and Birth 101
A clear understanding of how labour and birth unfold, helping dads feel more prepared and present.
The Early Postpartum Days
An overview of the early newborn period — including the physical, emotional and relational changes that come with it.
Staying Grounded: Emotional Regulation Tools
Simple strategies to manage stress, overwhelm and pressure during an intense period of change.
Love, Conflict & Connection After Baby
Support for maintaining connection and navigating relationship changes in the postpartum period.
Becoming a Confident Dad: Learning Together & Sharing the Mental Load
Practical guidance on involvement, initiative and shared responsibility in early parenthood.
Developed and facilitated by registered counsellor and dad of two Liam Bennett, whose work centres around supporting individuals and families through complex, high-pressure and emotionally intense experiences.
His approach focuses on emotional regulation, presence, and how to show up when it matters most – not just understanding what to do, but being able to actually do it in the moment.
Because in birth, it’s not just about knowing what to do.
It’s about being steady enough to do it.
Access:
• Delivered via private video playlist
• Watch together in the lead-up to birth
• Or let him go through it in his own time
• Lifetime access
Your access also includes our monthly online pub nights – a relaxed, supportive space for partners to ask questions, connect, and feel more prepared in real time.
Many antenatal classes and forms of childbirth education for partners explain what birth is.
The Fatherhood Project focuses on what your partner actually does within it.
How to:
- support you through contractions
- stay calm when things feel intense
- be present without needing guidance
- understand what actually helps (and what doesn’t)
This is the part that shapes how birth feels – and how you carry it with you afterwards.
You deserve to feel supported.
Not like you have to explain what you need in the middle of a contraction.
Not like you have to carry the emotional load alone.
But like you’re in it together.
If you are located outside Australia, please purchase via Etsy.
Also known as:
birth partner course, childbirth education for partners, partner support during labour, how to support your partner during birth, birth preparation for partners
