Paternal experiences of pregnancy and birth called _____ are expected in some cultures, a normal variation in many, and considered pathological in others.
The word "couvade" comprises several procedures or activities traditionally masculine in economically underdeveloped cultures, during whose offspring's moment of conception.
In developed cultures, men exhibit signs of Couvade at approximately the same time, and then those signs can be physiological as well as psychosomatic.
