Words starting with couvadesynd
Maybe these words will be useful:
- couvades — a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
- couvade — a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
- couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy