Is it possible to become pregnant just through the force of intense and frequent maternal feelings? Because I've gone beyond just wanting to steal babies
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It's possible to have a 'phantom pregnancy' from intensely wanting a baby (or, occasionally, from being intensely terrified of pregnancy). Your body somehow induces all the regular changes of pregnancy -- you stop menstruating, start having morning sickness and cravings, get a big belly, on and on and on -- except there is no baby. Oh, and, the belly button fails to become an 'outie' (this is the one failsafe test for phantom pregnancy). No one knows how this works, but it's fairly well documented.
(I think the theory on how you get a big belly is some combination of fat deposits and visceral rearrangement...?)
Oh, no, if you had pseudocyesis you'd know it (or, more likely, you'd think you were actually pregnant). But it's a fascinating...disease? Not quite. Thing the brain does. That the brain, way up at the top of the spinal cord, can cause such omnibus changes so coherently, without a fertilized egg to get it going, is nothing short of amazing.
And yay for insane taste buds; ask saizai about "Iron Chef WTF".
There were a lot of crazy medieval instances of pseudocyesis, though I agree that's not what's going on here. Perhaps a desire to have someone's metaphorical babies? I often reflect that Hill will never be the father of my children, and only Nutella can console me then.
Your story reminds me of the time when, in a Russian produce market in the Richmond, my mother and I saw a man buying a jar of watermelon pickles. "They're good," he said contemplatively. "I like them. I don't eat them all the time, but when I see them, I buy them." Also, do you subscribe to my theory that orange marmalade tastes decent alongside every other food?
I read the first and second thoughts as if they were coherent and was intenseley confused. Also, today in a country store I saw WATERMELON SYRUP but we'd already paid and my mom is restricting things I eat/buy.
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(I think the theory on how you get a big belly is some combination of fat deposits and visceral rearrangement...?)
Pseudocyesis.
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And yay for insane taste buds; ask saizai about "Iron Chef WTF".
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Your story reminds me of the time when, in a Russian produce market in the Richmond, my mother and I saw a man buying a jar of watermelon pickles. "They're good," he said contemplatively. "I like them. I don't eat them all the time, but when I see them, I buy them." Also, do you subscribe to my theory that orange marmalade tastes decent alongside every other food?
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Also, today in a country store I saw WATERMELON SYRUP but we'd already paid and my mom is restricting things I eat/buy.
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