Phantom Pregnancy, With Quintuplets!

Sigmund · Mar 26, 2014

Good Morning.

Just popping by to share this with you.

A Canadian woman managed to convince her boyfriend and her town that she was pregnant with quintuplets for 34 weeks.

Right now, this woman is at the hospital undergoing psychiatric treatment. We suspect some mental issues."

Pseudocyesis is a very rare disorder in which a woman experiences all the symptoms of pregnancy, but is not pregnant.

Full story here:

Woman Has Phantom Pregnancy, With Quintuplets | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo

Have a great day!

Peace.

AnnaMarie · Mar 26, 2014

Apparently she did it before.

Shasta · Mar 26, 2014

There's a lot that's fishy about this. Did she never go to the doctor? There's no way I would make it to 34 weeks pregnant without my husband coming to some appointments.

Sigmund · Mar 26, 2014

AnnaMarie said:
Apparently she did it before.

Thank you, Ma'm. I found it:

Woman has phantom pregnancy with quintuplets | WQAD.com

Bienvenue was receiving psychiatric care according to the Toronto Sun, which reported this was not her first phantom pregnancy and that she had also previously posed as a cancer patient.

Shasta said:
There's a lot that's fishy about this. Did she never go to the doctor? There's no way I would make it to 34 weeks pregnant without my husband coming to some appointments.

Me, too! My husband was with me every doctors visit.

I'm wondering what she thought was going to happen at the hospital? Deliver what babies? She really believed it.

Peace.

arista · Mar 26, 2014

I have heard of dogs having phantom pregnancies. I have never heard of women. I suppose anything is possible.

AnnaMarie · Mar 26, 2014

Shasta said:
There's a lot that's fishy about this. Did she never go to the doctor? There's no way I would make it to 34 weeks pregnant without my husband coming to some appointments.

My husband met the OB in the labor room.

Shasta · Mar 26, 2014

AnnaMarie said:
My husband met the OB in the labor room.

REALLY? Maybe my husband and I share too much because he's already met my gyno and I'm not even pregnant!!!

AnnaMarie · Mar 26, 2014

No, I think it's normal for husbands to meet the doctor. (Whether he wants to or not.). But there are some that don't.

And I'm not insinuating your husband does not want to be that involved. I'm just saying somehusbands don't want to be, but their wives don't give them a voice in it.

fljoe0 · Mar 26, 2014

I love how she wasn't just pregnant but pregnant with quintuplets. I guess if you're going to make something up, you might as well go all the way.

Sigmund · Mar 26, 2014

fljoe0 said:
I love how she wasn't just pregnant but pregnant with quintuplets. I guess if you're going to make something up, you might as well go all the way.

At least she didn't try to top Octomom!

Peace.

Dana Jean · Mar 26, 2014

arista said:
I have heard of dogs having phantom pregnancies. I have never heard of women. I suppose anything is possible.

I had a dog who had phantom pregnancies. Her boobs leaked and everything. I felt so bad for her.

MadamMack · Mar 26, 2014

fljoe0 said:
I love how she wasn't just pregnant but pregnant with quintuplets. I guess if you're going to make something up, you might as well go all the way.

Yep . . .

Grandpa · Mar 26, 2014

It's a Lionel Richie song.

"Once... twice.. five times a baby..."

staropeace · Mar 27, 2014

These french canadians! Gotta watch them lol.

staropeace · Mar 27, 2014

I have heard of phantom pregnancy before but I think she was just plain lying....big difference.

GNTLGNT · Mar 27, 2014

...we suspect mental issues...I suspect an amazing grasp of the obvious...

Neesy · Mar 29, 2014

Sigmund said:
Good Morning.

Just popping by to share this with you.

A Canadian woman managed to convince her boyfriend and her town that she was pregnant with quintuplets for 34 weeks.

Right now, this woman is at the hospital undergoing psychiatric treatment. We suspect some mental issues."

Pseudocyesis is a very rare disorder in which a woman experiences all the symptoms of pregnancy, but is not pregnant.

Full story here:

Woman Has Phantom Pregnancy, With Quintuplets | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo

Have a great day!

Peace.

Well if you are going to have a phantom pregnancy, might as well go big! (Perhaps she thought she was the reincarnation of the French Canadian woman who actually did have quintuplets - the Dionne quintuplets).

Pierre Berton wrote an excellent book about it and I read it a while back - I would recommend it

This was in the days long before assisted reproduction was a reality - it is amazing they even survived.

AnnaMarie · Mar 29, 2014

GNTLGNT said:
...we suspect mental issues...I suspect an amazing grasp of the obvious...

There's a difference between making it up, and believing it herself. Making it up and knowingly lieing could be a mental issue, but not necessarily. Her believing it....that's a mental issue.

Neesy, I keep meaning to read one of the books about the Dionne quints. Didn't they get put on display to get money to help support them? (Like a museum, or a zoo.)

GNTLGNT · Mar 29, 2014

AnnaMarie said:
There's a difference between making it up, and believing it herself. Making it up and knowingly lieing could be a mental issue, but not necessarily. Her believing it....that's a mental issue.

Neesy, I keep meaning to read one of the books about the Dionne quints. Didn't they get put on display to get money to help support them? (Like a museum, or a zoo.)

...I wasn't referring to her, but the idiocy of the quote...

AnnaMarie · Mar 29, 2014

I'm down a cup. Time for coffee.

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