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17.03.10 17:36
Partners of pregnant women often get their own set of symptoms that mirror pregnancy - food cravings and weight gain, constipation, labour pains, headaches and toothache, a New Zealand researcher says.
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Partners get pregnancy symptoms too
Known as "Couvade Syndrome" the phenomenon has been reported overseas in men far away from their partners, same sex partners, mothers and mothers-in-law .
The symptoms disappear quite quickly after the partner has given birth, said Ms Lichtwark.
She said there were no specific figures for the condition's incidence in New Zealand, but in the United States estimates were as high as 90 percent of male partners having pregnancy symptoms, and between 30 and 60 percent in Europe.