2026 Perinatal Grand rounds

Seen, Supported, Included: The Role of Fathers in Improving Perinatal Outcomes: A Wrapped in Love Approach

This presentation explores the critical role fathers play in shaping perinatal, postpartum, and infant feeding outcomes when they are intentionally invited into care spaces. Drawing from community-based practice, lived experience, and perinatal equity frameworks, the speaker highlights how father inclusion strengthens partner support, improves family stability, and contributes to better maternal and infant outcomes, including increased success with human milk feeding goals.

The presentation examines the impact of father support across the perinatal period. It also offers practical strategies for perinatal systems to adopt more inclusive, family-centered approaches that recognize fathers as essential partners in care rather than peripheral participants.

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Meet the instructor

Angelene Love, BS, CBS, Doula

Angelene Love is the Co-Founder of Wrapped in Love Doula & Lactation Support and a community-based perinatal leader with over 15 years experience improving infant feeding outcomes through equitable, family-centered care. Angelene’s work focuses on strengthening systems by intentionally including partners and fathers as essential contributors to infant feeding success.

 

The speaker has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Describe how systemic practices in perinatal care contribute to the erasure of fathers, and recognize how this exclusion impacts maternal, infant, and family outcomes.
  • Explain the role of fathers as critical contributors to perinatal, postpartum, and human milk feeding outcomes, including their influence on partner support and family stability.
  • Apply family-centered strategies to intentionally engage fathers in perinatal and infant feeding care, including identifying opportunities for collaboration with community-based programs and supports.

Accreditation Statement

Continuing Medical Education

The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care (WAPC) designates this internet enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. 

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planning Committee

No one in control of content has any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*
*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients.

Course Information

This webinar was recorded on 15 January 2026.

The expiration date for this course is 15 January 2029.