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The causes of medically cryptic pregnancies are either physiological, that is, there were no recognizable symptoms of pregnancy, or can be due to psychological problems. For example, denied pregnancy is a condition in which a woman is mentally unable to accept that she is pregnant and so may go part way or all the way through a pregnancy ...
The symptoms of false pregnancy can be misinterpreted by the individual as a true pregnancy when the symptoms are actually caused by diseases (like hormone-secreting tumors, alcoholic liver disease, cholecystitis, urinary tract infection, gallstones) or exposure to a substance (like a medication), [2] or other conditions like constipation. [1]
A lithopedion (also spelled lithopaedion or lithopædion; from Ancient Greek: λίθος "stone" and Ancient Greek: παιδίον "small child, infant"), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, [1] is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as ...
What Tayvia is experienced is called a cryptic pregnancy, a rare situation in which someone does not know they are pregnant for most or all of gestation. Tayvia, 26, says she didn’t gain any ...
What Tayvia is experienced is called a cryptic pregnancy, a rare situation in which someone does not know they are pregnant for most or all of gestation. Tayvia, 26, says she didn’t gain any ...
Women in Nigeria desperate to conceive are drawn into a disturbing scam involving trafficked babies.
However, in some species, the corpus luteum may persist in the absence of pregnancy and cause "pseudopregnancy", in which the female will exhibit clinical signs of pregnancy. [ 2 ] The mechanism is not well understood, but prolactin and its receptors are known to be involved in pseudopregnancy. [ 3 ]
"Historic childbirth" is a term used to describe the birth of children before the introduction of effective pain relief in 1847. [4] During that time psychiatric complications were clearly described, well recognized and common in countries with the best health services.