The couvade syndrome and side preference in child holding.
In a prospective study of expectant couples 20% of the men suffered from the couvade syndrome. About 80% of both women and men hold their newborn infant to the left and 20% to the right, irrespective of handedness. Compared with others, men with the syndrome more frequently developed a right-side preference in child holding. Right-holding men more often had sons than daughters. Right-holders with the couvade syndrome were more often attached to and more closely identified with their mothers than were right-holding non-sufferers.
D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D013577:Syndrome