You may not even know it, but Couvade Syndrome affects the partners of women during pregnancy and causes the person feels the side effects present in this period of the woman's life, such as increased abdominal pain, heartburn, nausea and anxiety.
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If the side effects of pregnancy certainly affect most women, due to the variations hormonal present in the period, the news that you may not know is that men can also try some of them.
This is thanks to Couvade Syndrome, which although not a recognized disease, causes the person to experience the physical and psychological symptoms experienced by a woman during pregnancy. It's called empathic gestation and it's common across the planet.
This discovery that seems to be recent, however, is a cultural behavior of millennia and is a way of alert men to care for the baby, as explained by Frank L'Engle Williams of Georgia State University.
For this reason, fatherhood can be experienced by men through the eyes of their wives, in which he understands the responsibility of having a baby and the difficulties faced until the child arrives at the world.
After all, when the baby is born, there is a hormonal transformation in both women and men. In men, drops in testosterone levels and increases in oxytocin are observed phenomena.
There is still much research to be done to better understand Couvade Syndrome and how it forms, however, a more Empathy of pregnancy is capable of making parents more affectionate and better prepared for the challenges of raising a person and educating them for the future. world.
If you have a very strong bond with your lover, it is very likely that you will feel or come to feel, Couvade Syndrome, at the time of your partner's pregnancy, which will help you to see everything different.
