Friday, August 21, 2009

"Imaginary pregnancy"

Several days ago I posted some links to news and features delving on life issues. One of them was Wesley J. Smith's take on the possible consequences of too much reproductive "freedom", which jumped off from a reported 12-baby pregnancy of a Tunisian woman. I had also read about the reported multiple pregnancy on Birth Story.

Today, a news item on Gulf News reports that the woman is not pregnant. It was a case of "phantom pregnancy" (is that what it's really called?).

3 comments:

petrufied said...

wow how common is that? D: wala ba pregnancy test?

sunnyday said...

The woman had refused to take a pregnancy test yata for some time but she claimed to be pregnant with the 12. But as doctors have said, a multiple pregnancy that "plentiful" is almost impossible.

John Jansen said...

Indeed, "phantom pregnancy" is what the term is commonly known as. Incidentally, it's also a not uncommon symptom among women suffering from post-abortion aftermath.

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