During the prenatal period, the most often cited examples of a father failing to provide positive support were a father expecting the mother to “do it all” by not helping with the workload (household and baby), and a father not being physically present, both of which were mentioned by most of the mothers. At the post-natal time points, mothers continued to identify these examples most often; however, slightly fewer mothers identified these examples at each time point with about half of mothers identifying these examples by the 6 month time point. According to mothers: