couvade

Some men experience a related phenomenon known as couvade, or sympathetic pregnancy.

The couvade may also be a way to establish the father's role in the child's life and to give balance to the gender roles.

Symptoms of pseudocyesis can also occur in men who have couvade syndrome.

They had most of the customs of the Guaycuru, including the couvade.

The Couvade Syndrome, for example, is a phenomenon in which the husbands of pregnant women get morning sickness.

Irony or no, this is a classic case of sympathetic pregnancy, also known as Couvade Syndrome.

The father observed a couvade.

The anthropologist E. B. Tylor was the first person that made use of the name couvade.

For example, the couvade, which is when the husband imitates the restrictions, the wife has during pregnancy (L.Rival, 1998).

Every obstetrician encounters the "couvade syndrome" sufferer.

The causes of couvade syndrome have not yet been determined to a medical certainty, but hypotheses have been advanced.

Klein, H. Couvade syndrome: male counterpart to pregnancy.

Romola became pregnant right away, causing Nijinsky to miss performances due to sickening symptoms of couvade syndrome.

The reasons for couvade are in some cultures linked to certain myths that give instructions and show what can go wrong if the parents do not follow them.

In "Psycho-Evolutionary" theory, it is thought that couvade is a way to minimize sexual differences in the pregnancy and birthing experience.

A psychoanalytical reading by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere suggests that there is an underlying concern with couvade syndrome or male birthing in the poem.

'Androgenous Parents and Guest Children': The Huaorani Couvade.

The couvade is known throughout history, for example in the ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, in the Basque country and in the south of France.

Includes reprint of Warren R. Dawson's The Custom of Couvade, originally published by Manchester University Press in 1929.

The term "couvade" is borrowed from French (where it is derived from the verb couver "to brood, hatch"); the use in the modern sense derives from a misunderstanding of an earlier idiom faire la couvade, which meant "to sit doing nothing."