WOMENSTD 324 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 9: Couvade, Male Pregnancy, Labor Induction
12 Apr 2016
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Men would pace, smoke, listen to radio/watch tv, read, sleep, talk on pay phone, and commiserate with one another. Those who pushed the issue usually succeeded in spending considerable ime with their wives during labor had to leave during delivery though: usually saw intervenions (i. e. labor inducion) as beneicial, saving their wives unnecessary pain and sufering gives physicians ak. Men approved of procedures they interpreted to mean their wives would have an easier and shorter labor. Men usually not consulted about decisions during labor. The law was an inhibitory factor to physicians. Men didn"t view themselves as a threat to physicians authority. Increasingly, physicians saw men as allies: by 1980, overwhelming majority of physicians and hospitals allowed, and even encouraged, husbands to stay with their wives throughout labor and delivery. Fathers join the mother in assuming responsibility for the health of new child: siriono men (indigenous south america people) Restricted from eaing meat of certain animals, certain plants.
