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Those kinds of dads do not exist anymore, not at least among the sitcom writers in Hollywood, who are evidently immersed in prenatal co-parenting and Lamaze class couvade.

It is proper here to notice traces of the couvade, not perhaps indicating that the couvade itself was ever practised as a custom, but showing rather how widely spread are the ideas underlying that custom.

Though other explanations of the couvade have been given, the most plausible theory represents it as a recognition of paternity by the father.

The couvade in its strict form, with restrictions and observances which are imposed entirely upon the father to the exclusion of the mother, does not seem to be found.

These allusions always refer to the Béarnais, the dialect whence the word “couvade” is borrowed.