{"id":36759,"date":"2022-09-14T10:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=36759"},"modified":"2022-09-14T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:18:40","slug":"first-time-fathers-brains-shrink-by-up-to-2-after-the-birth-of-their-baby-but-it-can-actually-help-them-connect-with-their-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/first-time-fathers-brains-shrink-by-up-to-2-after-the-birth-of-their-baby-but-it-can-actually-help-them-connect-with-their-child\/","title":{"rendered":"First-time fathers&#8217; brains SHRINK by up to 2% after the birth of their baby &#8211; but it can actually help them connect with their child,"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34149\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/paternityleave-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/paternityleave-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/paternityleave-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/paternityleave-770x465.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/paternityleave-1536x927.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/paternityleave-2048x1236.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/paternityleave-360x217.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many women experience cognitive struggles during pregnancy and after birth, in what is often referred to as &#8216;baby brain.&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-11203615\/First-time-fathers-experience-brain-SHRINKAGE-birth-child-study-finds.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Many women experience cognitive struggles during pregnancy and after birth, in what is often referred to as &#8216;baby brain.&#8217; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/paternityleave.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36760,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36759\/revisions\/36760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}