Social researchers have largely used the framework of self-surveillance to describe the experience of pregnant women within a social context characterised by risk avoidance for the sake of their baby. However, men’s positions regarding the risk discourses surrounding alcohol use during pregnancy and their engagement in their partners’ regulation of abstinence remain unclear. Using a socio-cultural approach to risk perception, this study contributes to the understanding of the lay management of health-related risk as a relational issue by considering the couple relationship as a significant context that shapes responses to risk in everyday life. In this article, I explore the woman’s and her partner’s management of the risks surrounding alcohol consumption during pregnancy. This study draws on joint interviews with 30 first-time expectant couples conducted in 2014 in Switzerland. I found that all the women’s changes of their drinking had been their personal choice and had been seldom discussed with their partners. While women’s responses to risk discourses reflected their engagement in self-surveillance, most of the men were actively involved in their partners’ self-regulation, in terms of support for the transition to abstinence, endorsement of maternal responsibility, and monitoring the woman’s behaviour. I show that the management of the risks related to alcohol consumption was a matter of co-surveillance, rather than of self-surveillance. Although co-surveillance was most often experienced as shared responsibility, some couples experienced conflicts that emphasised the moral meaning of risk related to alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

社会研究人员主要使用自我监视的框​​架来描述孕妇在以婴儿为目的而规避风险的社会环境中的经历。但是，关于怀孕期间饮酒的危险性话题以及他们是否参与伴侣对戒酒的规定，男性的立场尚不清楚。通过使用社会文化方法来理解风险，这项研究通过将夫妻关系视为影响日常生活中对风险做出反应的重要背景，有助于将健康相关风险的外行管理视为一种关系问题。在本文中，我探讨了妇女及其伴侣对孕期饮酒风险的管理。这项研究基于2014年在瑞士与30对首次怀孕夫妇进行的联合访谈。我发现所有妇女的饮酒习惯都是她们的个人选择，很少与伴侣讨论。尽管妇女对风险话语的反应反映了她们对自我监督的参与，但在支持向禁欲过渡，支持孕产妇责任和监测妇女行为方面，大多数男子积极参与了伴侣的自我调节。我表明，与饮酒有关的风险的管理是共同监视的问题，而不是自我监视的问题。尽管共同监视最常被视为共同责任，