Couvade /(ko͡o`vȧd")/

Cou·vade

Couvade

n.
  1. A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
    The world-wide custom of the couvade, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days.