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Hosted
by Gordon Churchwell, who is also the author of the book Pregnant
Men, the show takes viewers on a humorous and a thought-provoking
journey through modern pregnancy from a man's point of view, says
an official release.
Wearing
an empathy belly for a day, Churchwell discovers that the husbands
of women who are pregnant seem to experience some of the same symptoms
that their wives do, such as: mood swings, dizziness and nausea.
In
the Pregnant Man, Gordon dramatises his own experience, including
all the normal reactions of the expectant parent like fear, joy,
and confusion.
Viewers
also get to meet, NYU School of Medicine, M D/ Professor (department
of medicine) Dr Mack Lipkin, who observed that many of his male
patients were getting sick for no apparent reason. However, they
all had one thing in common, their wives were pregnant.
 The
emotions, fears, behaviour and even hormones are all perhaps part
of a transformation that prepares a man for fatherhood. Amazingly,
this is a phenomenon that has been known for centuries now, but
it's never been systematically investigated before.
This
led Dr Lipkin to study Couvade syndrome, which refers to the practice
in which a father simulates labour and childbirth shortly after
the birth of his child to demonstrate his role in reproduction or
to ease the mother's pain by sharing in it.
So,
for all those to-be-fathers, who are having a hard time understanding
what they are going through, then Pregnant Man is a must
watch for them.
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