Couvade

[ku:'vɑ:d]

Definition

(noun.) a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child.

Checker: Melanie--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.

Checked by Llewellyn

Definition

n. a custom among savages in many parts of the world for the father to take to his bed at the birth of a child and submit to certain restrictions of food &c.

Typist: Zamenhof