‘Latte Dads’ are the latest Swedish parenting phenomenon — and American moms are extremely jealous: ‘Ridiculously hot’

Swedish dads are taking paternity time off — and turning up nan heat.

Meet nan Nordic nation’s alleged ‘latte dads’ — stroller-pushing, baby-wearing hunks who walk their days connected generous paid clip disconnected benefits sipping java successful cafes, chatting astir diaper rash, and someway looking for illustration H&M models while doing it.

“One of nan things that stood retired to maine was each these mostly ridiculously basking guys that are conscionable amended pinch babies than immoderate female I’ve ever met,” Chana Svensson, who moved from Florida to Sweden while pregnant, told TODAY successful a recent interview.

“It’s thing successful nan h2o here.”

In America, caller mamas are fortunate to get 2 weeks before heading backmost to nan office pinch a bosom pump successful 1 manus and a spreadsheet successful nan different — never mind nan papas.

Swedish dads are taking paternity time off — and mounting parenting (and hearts) connected fire. These Nordic hunks aren’t conscionable changing diapers — they’re changing nan game. tiktok/@babybjorn

In Sweden? Dads for illustration Chana’s firefighter hubby Johan are disconnected nan timepiece — and connected babe duty.

“It’s thing special, being location pinch him by yourself from nan beginning, for sure,” Johan told nan outlet. 

Though he added, “A batch of grey hairs were calved for maine during that time.”

Thanks to Sweden’s sweet-as-a-pastry argumentation — a whopping 480 days of paid time off per kid — moms and dads tin tag-team diaper work consecutive done nan unspeakable twos. tiktok/@babybjorn

Thanks to nan country’s cushy argumentation — 480 days of paid time off per kid — Swedish couples tin tag-team childcare good into toddlerhood. 

The authorities foots up to 80% of your salary, and parents tin usage nan days immoderate clip earlier nan kid turns 12.

Back successful nan US, that sounds for illustration a imagination to exhausted moms for illustration Erin Erenberg, co-founder of nan Chamber of Mothers.

“We are really, genuinely astatine nan bottommost of nan heap erstwhile it comes to paid family aesculapian leave,” she told TODAY. 

“Every different state successful nan world has it, isolated from for micro islands.”

Erenberg watched a satirical “latte dad” TikTok video by Baby Björn and didn’t cognize whether to laughter aliases cry. “I was jealous!” she admitted.

In nan comments conception of nan viral clip, 1 personification wrote, “Positive masculinity is truthful attractive.” Another gushed, “Beautiful! That’s nan type of masculinity we want to see.”

Others, however, were calling Captain Obvious. “Not men being celebrated for taking attraction of their ain children,” 1 wrote arsenic personification other replied, “love really they praise men for *normal parenting.*”

New Swedish dads who return paternity time off are besides far little apt to booze themselves into nan hospital, according to a 2023 Stockholm University study.

“We recovered that aft nan [fathers’ paternal time off argumentation successful Sweden] was implemented, location was a 34% alteration successful [alcohol-related] hospitalizations among fathers successful nan 2 years aft birth,” wrote lead writer Helena Honkaniemi.

“Fathers who walk much clip astatine location whitethorn besides beryllium encouraged to believe greater behavioral self-regulation astir their children,” nan study noted, arsenic antecedently reported by The Post.

Since Sweden introduced paid parental time off successful 1974, nan number of days claimed by fathers has jumped from conscionable 1% to 30%.

When dads were granted 30 days of time off successful 1995, information changeable up to 75% — on pinch noticeable intelligence wellness benefits.

Today, Swedish parents get a whopping 480 days of job-protected time off to split, astir of it paid astatine astir 80% of their salaries.

Overall, who knew adjacent parenting, awesome cheekbones, and authorities support could beryllium so… sexy?