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To the last commenter: i feel you completely! i am asking my fiances obgyn for help because i cant sleep, eat, nothing, etc. etc.
This is our second child. our first child i was fine. but now here are my symptoms: lose of appetite, i throw up, cough alot, bad sleep, nothing tastes good, head ache, sinus ache, body is sore, nausea... and yes i am the guy. due date is may... i cant wait...lol
When me and my husband found out that i was pregnant he started to gain weight, going to the bathroom more often, eating and throwing up
Hi! my babys father is suffering from this weird couvade thing. his symtoms are only weight gain and excessive eating though.....me i lost my weight during pregnancy and i barely eat like i have no appetite....
I am an expecting dad and for some reason when my wife dosent eat or holds her pee i start to get stomach cramps really bad. and when she hasent had any sleep during the day i am the one that feels it while im at work. is all this normal or is it just in my head?
The father of my child are experiencing some of theses couvade symptoms. but the one he has been experiencing since i found out i was pregnant is an out of this world toothache and sine i entered the 2nd trimester he has been vomiting and rarley eating
Can you help me find more information about this syndrome? please contact if any one can helpme out
Katie, first, sympathy is never defined as imitative but the ability to share feelings of another person. it is very clear that you are educated but tend to take a feminist outlook on the world. i do agree that this world was based on a patriarchical society with religion as a focal point but your argument is not constructed well at all. you first go from word definition to discrimination to feminism and finally while males will never feel for a woman. the whole process of this syndrome is to show that "men" have feelings too and enjoy taking part in the love/hate relationship that is life. it is not a he said/she said battle but that of commitment and working toward a greater good. alas, my girlfriend was pregnant and i went through these small pains. i did not look for people to treat me or find a diagnosis but laughed with my partner because we were sharing this moment together..and that is all that matters!
Couvade should never be referred to as "sympathy." under what circumstances, do we imitate others with physical challenges? do we imitate people with cancer? it's not sympathy, it's pure imitation. it evolved from cultures that were very open about acknowledging women as life-givers. men today do admire women as the givers of life through pregnancy, but through machismo are taught to disguise it. some men do suffer from womb envy, and it's expressed in different forms. our religions are male dominated because they were made up so that males could be the 'spiritual life givers.' we can debate whether god is male, but we cannot challenge that women bring life into this world. all forms of discrimination are based on womb envy. with that said, couvade doesn't necessarily represent womb envy. i think there is a certain side of men that wonders if they could handle pregnancy. we give men credit for strength, but women do the task that requires the most physical strength and for the most profound purpose - to bring life into the world. it's as if men don't want us to notice what we can do. so a man should be involved in his wife's pregnancy, but it should be about openly honoring her for what she is doing, not trying to be a baby a grab attention and pretend he can give birth too.
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And this is our first child. she is eating great, and i am not eating at all. and physical symptoms are: back pains, head aches, anxiety, diarrhea, insomnia, nausea, indegestion. our due time is mid-march. and now with the alaskan winter here, driving these dangerous winter roads i get my share of anxiety.
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