Answer: couvade

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couvadea primitive birth ritual
couvadewhen the husband of a pregnant woman acts as though he were bearing the child.
couvadepractice 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