{"id":106247,"date":"2020-11-24T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivi-fertility.com\/?p=106247"},"modified":"2022-04-12T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:35:19","slug":"false-pregnancy-causes-symptoms-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivi-fertility.com\/blog\/false-pregnancy-causes-symptoms-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"False (Phantom) Pregnancy: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"

False pregnancy<\/strong>, or phantom pregnancy<\/strong>, is a rare condition. The patient not only thinks she is pregnant<\/strong>, but her body displays many of the signs of pregnancy<\/strong> too. It is not the same as an imagined pregnancy<\/strong>, in which someone hopes for pregnancy <\/strong>with such intensity that she convinces herself that she is, in spite of the absence of physical signs. The clinical term for the condition is pseudocyesis.<\/p>\n

Phantom pregnancy<\/strong> is very rare, affecting only about one in 7,000 pregnancies, but it is nothing new. The Greek \u2018Father of Medicine\u2019 Hippocrates first described it in 300 BCE. A famous historical example was Britain\u2019s Mary Tudor in 1555. Although in the past it was often dismissed as \u2018all in the mind\u2019, medical experts now recognise that it is more than that, with physical as well as psychological causes.<\/p>\n

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