False Pregnancy Symptoms

Pseudocyesis or pseudopregnancy, commonly known as false pregnancy is a situation in a woman in which she feels that she is pregnant although in reality she is not pregnant. This happens because certain false pregnancy symptoms occur in such women that are very close and similar to the symptoms that normally occur in those women who are pregnant. Because of these false pregnancy symptoms, the woman feels that she is going to be mother. These false pregnancy symptoms also gains strength because of the fact that in general, a woman desires to be a mother.

As per the expert gynaecologists, the women who may suffer such false pregnancy symptoms are those who

• Have once suffered the issues and complications of pregnancy such as miscarriage or have lost their child in an accident.
• Are in the elderly age group of thirties or forties and are trying to conceive a child since many years without any positive results and are unable to conceive a child due to some other fertility problems.

Causes

The principal cause as per the expert gynaecologists and medical practitioners that may bring about the false pregnancy symptoms is the emotional conflict and deep rooted desire of a woman to be a mother. In general, an extreme possessive and passionate desire of a woman to be mother, to get impregnated or a wide extreme fear of a woman from being pregnant, both can create certain situations in the endocrine system. These changed situations exhibit some False Pregnancy Symptoms and these are very difficult to distinguish.

The major four false pregnancy symptoms are

Missed periods

If a woman fails to attain her menstrual period at proper time, it can be termed as pregnancy symptom, but similar late menstrual periods may also occur due to some irregularities in the menstrual cycles, or there can be a reason that the woman failed to keep proper track of menstrual dates.

Tender breasts

The tenderness of breasts can be predicted as earliest and strong pregnancy symptom in women, yet, in some cases, tenderness of breasts may also occur as a premenstrual symptom.

Morning sickness

Right when a woman starts feeling morning sickness, it is taken as a pregnancy symptom. She considers it a strong indication of her being impregnated by her husband or lover. Morning sickness can be very misleading though, they can be just a symptom of some hormonal changes in the body of woman due to climate change or similar reason.

Abdominal widening

Sometimes, women start feeling of a wide or bloated abdomen and that lead her to believe that she is going to be a mother. Yet, the abdominal expansion may also occur because of some gastric problem, urine retention of fat increase.

In order to get rid of these false hopes of being impregnated, a woman may go through medical pregnancy tests. These clinical medical tests are perfectly believable and if after the medical tests, if woman turns out to e fortunate enough to be a pregnant woman, then only she may exclaim that her feelings were not False Pregnancy Symptoms.