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Finally! A Pregnancy Article of Interest
Today's Health section of the New York Times at last ran the kind of piece about pregnancy that I find utterly compelling. Well, actually, it is about pregnancies that arent.
I'm not talking about miscarriages or blighted ova or anything of the sort, I am talking about false pregnancies, the classically named "hysterical pregnancies," clinicaly termed pseudocyesis.
The piece is rather shallow on the kind of information one would most like: why does this happen, how does this happen, what happens when women who suffer from pseudocyesis are disabused of their belief - and their body's belief - that they are going to have a baby?
I'm not one of those people who really enjoys pregnancy, so I do wonder how much work it would take for me to convince myself for 40 weeks (or so) that this strange metamorphosis is actually happening when it isn't.
I don't really think the women whose bodies and minds make this mistake are strange or freakish, but I do wonder if pseudocyesis is on the rise at all. With the huge cultural emphasis on pregnancy and the constant noisy public political, medical, social and spiritual dialogues about pregnancy, it is easy to see how the topic can become very large in some peoples' minds.
Oh, and P.S.: Apparently New York City has the dubious distinction of being the first city to ban trans fats. I'm not a huge trans fat fan, but I still don't really go for the idea of the City taking so much of an interest in what I may or may not eat.
Still, I'm now entertaining the fantasy that secret trans fat speakeasies will pop up all over town featuring fabulous delights that carry the extra zing of not only being bad for you but illegal to boot.
posted by Elise at 9:15 AM
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