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couvade

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cou·vade (k-väd)
n.
A practice in certain non-Western cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child.
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In the classic couvade of anthropological texts, men actually act out labor.
Birthing fathers by Reed, Richard / Mothering
Dawson's classic compilation of couvade customs, says that that ritual path is made up of ways of losing mother or gaining mother: "All initiatory wandering is in the mother, through the mother, from mother, to mother.
Husbandry amid wives by Herriot, Trevor / Mothering
What Hall finds is this: couvade customs seem intent on making a man "motherly" so as to make him a father.
Broodmales by Swanson, Suzanne / Mothering
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