- a practice 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.
- a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
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