I thought this sounded like an interesting book so I asked author Hogan Hilling to do a Why I Wrote this Book. Even Mothering Magazine liked the book and had this to say. "It is so hard to find a male perspective on fathering. I really appreciate your empathy for fathers’ feelings about pregnancy and birth—the sense of responsibility, fear, helplessness, and the drive to provide. I love the description of how men feel during childbirth classes, how they object to being called coaches as well as their reluctance to share their feelings in a room full of women."

The Modern Mom’s Guide to Dads: 10 Secrets Your Husband Won’t Tell You by Hogan Hilling and Jesse Jayne Rutherford. (Cumberland House, October 2007).

I’ve led fathering workshops over the last fifteen years, and during that course of time, I’ve heard a lot about what other dads are really thinking, feeling, and afraid of when it comes to parenthood—things guys don’t normally tell their wives.

The idea for the book came about when moms started asking me to give them workshops on fathering because they wanted to hear what men had to say about being dads! I did, and I also wrote a book to share this information with women everywhere and, I hope, make their lives easier.