The Huffington Post | By Rebecca Adams 12/22/2014 10:49 am EST Updated: 12/22/2014 10:59 am EST Yes, women are the ones who actually experience the physical act of being pregnant and the hormone changes that come with it. But a new study suggests that expecting fathers go through their own share of hormonal shifts as the due date approaches. The study,
There is some recent research from Canada that might shed some insight into why men do have feelings about abortion losses. Anthropologists in primitive cultures have long recognized that in certain societies men experience symptoms of pregnancy with their wives. It is called couvade. Couvade has a long history. The word comes from the French
I’ve been a student of Fatherhood Lost by abortion for a number of years. Hundreds of men have related the difficulties they have had adjusting to the aftermath of losing their child. Men are more private by nature than women and they have different ways of dealing with grief. Even Robert Frost, in his poem