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Stranger than fiction: False pregnancy

A game of your mind it may be, but however weird it sounds, some women experience real pregnancy symptoms, but aren’t actually pregnant, writes Hannah Chira

False pregnancy or hysterical pregnancy known as pseudocyesis is the appearance of clinical signs and symptoms associated with pregnancy when a woman is not actually pregnant.

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