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WOMB MATES - JUST FOR DADS!

Fathers have a very important role in this life-stage and experience their own feelings and sometimes, anxiety about pregnancy, birth and parenting. We believe that it is important that dads feel empowered to support their partners effectively and at the same time have the freedom to embrace their own experiences. We recommend attending our Womb Mates workshop to interact with other experienced dads.

In addition, we recommend Pregnant Man : How Nature Makes Fathers Out of Men by Gordon Churchwell. The book is a hilarious and touching story of Gordon's nine-month evolution from clothes husband to birth partner and coparent. Along the way, this regular guy stumbles across some amazing discoveries that are important to both sexes. Starting with his own morning sicknesses, Gordon finds out the researchers have long documented that many men have pregnancy symptoms, Couvade Syndrome.

Couvade, from the French couver meaning: to hatch is known to affect somewhere between 10% to 65% of expectant fathers (depending on the study you read), and while the symptoms can occur at anytime, most appear in the third month and again at delivery. The symptoms mimic all of the normal symptoms of pregnancy ~ mood swings, fatigue, dizziness, leg cramps, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and cravings
- taken from canadianparents.com