According to info from www.crypticpregnancysupportgroup.com
''A cryptic pregnancy is a pregnancy where there is no detectable hCG in the mother’s system due to a hormonal imbalance, resulting in an extremely long gestation period, that is typically 3 to 5 years. Both urine and blood pregnancy tests will be negative during a cryptic pregnancy. If the mother has a uterine abnormality, her ultrasounds will also be negative. Due to the nature of cryptic pregnancy, many women do not realize that they are pregnant until delivery, but many are very aware that they are indeed pregnant. With either case, cryptic pregnancy is not caused by stress, or the fetus “hiding” to increase the possibility of it making it to full term.
The characteristics of a cryptic pregnancy are; negative urine and blood pregnancy test, continued "odd periods" (see periods during cryptic pregnancy ), typical pregnancy symptoms (although they are often milder than in a normal pregnancy, and come and go) and negative ultrasounds, if the mother has a "uterine abnormality" (see ultrasound article). Cryptic pregnancy does not have a normal 40 week gestation period. Cryptic pregnancies take between 22 months and 9 years, with most cryptic babies being born between 3 and 5 years. The slow growth of a cryptic fetus is caused by the pregnancy hormones being at "incorrect/insufficient" levels.
What Causes a Cryptic Pregnancy?
Cryptic Pregnancies occur to women who have a hormonal imbalance caused by but not limited to:
-Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS).
-Peri-menopause, which can begin as early as age 30, and go undetected.
-They have recently been pregnant, and their hormones have not gone back to normal before getting pregnant again.
-They are still breastfeeding and their hormones are not back to normal, before getting pregnant again.
-They have a very low body fat %, causing a hormonal imbalance, like in female athletes.
-They have recently used or are currently using a birth control method such as the "Norplant", the "Nexplanon", the "Depo-provera" Injection or the "Mirena Coil", that continually releases hormones into the body.
-They used the "Plan B" or the "Morning After Pill" and took it too late, or it failed.
-The use of "hCG injections" or "hCG oral drops" for weight loss.
-Eating large amounts of soy or products containing soy. This includes supplements containing soy that is used for weight loss or any other reason.
-An autoimmune issue such as Cushing's disease, Lupus, Celiac disease, thyroid issues and any other endocrine problem that can lead to a hormonal imbalance in the mother. The endocrine/autoimmune problem is not directly responsible for a pregnancy begins cryptic, but
can cause a secondary hormonal imbalance, leading to cryptic pregnancy.
This hormonal imbalance keeps the body from completely knowing it’s pregnant, so the mother continues to have "odd" periods as well as ovulate, even though she is pregnant....''
It is well.....may God see us through this journey
ReplyDeleteAnother is ectopic pregnancy... It's not our portion
Hmmm..
DeleteThis one doesn't sound life-threatening but ectopic is very dangerous. Let me google more about this. I've not heard of it before.
Amen...
DeleteWoman are suffering o
meaning women pregnant for more than 9month is normally wrong but we go dey blame mother inlaw, neigbour etc.
Deleteafter passing through this kinda stress, one iberiberism man will be laying hands on women.
DeleteMao Akuh
Demonic activities be having biological names. It’s cryptic it’s demonic
DeleteIn plain terms, this is baby factory runz. They just use that name as a cover up.
DeleteGod is great. Will the woman womb continue to enlarge during the years of the pregnancy?
ReplyDeleteIs there a way to take out a cryptic pregnancy? Will the baby come out normal like other babies?
Yes the baby will come out as a normal baby, am one of them, my mum had me after 11months,2weeks of pregnancy almost 1yr, here am I bouncing everyday & have never been sick
DeleteThank you Prudent... same questions on my mind
DeleteAmacastel I don't think yours is cryptic.
DeleteSwag what's my own? Pls give me the name der?
DeleteAmacastle you were village people de🙊
DeleteIt is very real. I have seen children been delivered through cryptic pregnancy. They are normal children. I seen twins. I carry them self. The only difference is that, the children can stays beyond 9 months. They are healthy children.
DeleteAmacastel, what do I know. I was just thinking jare
DeleteAm suffering from same thing and have really spent much in fact my husband is giving me problems not believing truely I was pregnant cos I test negative thou my look and everything about my body has changed but my belly is still small am scared but in church I was told that its a baby that I should be praying am just fed up.
DeleteYou're pregant my dear and pls dont be fed up. Let your husband go to the theatre with you during delivery.
DeleteIn cryptic pregnancy, you will not test positive even with blood test but you as the woman you will feel the baby's movement and will also add lots of weight.
19.11 go for scan to check if its fibroids. You're pregnant probably in your mind. Get help so you can attempt to get pregnant cos you are not.
DeleteIf you are seeing a midwife, the herbs she is giving you is why you look pregnant.
If you continue with this cryptic nonsense, then you will go home with a 'bought' baby.
God help you and your husband goes for a DNA......
IF THERE IS A BABY IN YOUR WOMB, A 4D ULTRASOUND WILL PICK IT UP. BABIES DONT GROW OUTSIDE THE WOMB LIKE THOSE CRYPTIC MIDWIVES WILL DECEIVE YOU.
YOUR HUSBAND HAS SENSE
Stella, I will send my story tomorrow. I'm tired tiday
DeleteI understand what you are going through, a friend had the same issue too, she carried hers for 2yrs and 7months. Her husband was doubtful even up until when the baby was delivered, sad thing he left after and said he wasn't the baby's daddy. Funny thing now is the baby is a carbon copy of her dad.
Delete@amacastel yours is most likely post datism...
DeleteSometimes women miscalculate the time they last saw their periods...but going by your mums information..yours is post datism.. cryptic pregnacy... is from 22months to 9yrs .yours was knocking on a year thereabout
Woah, learnt something new today.
ReplyDeleteNow it makes sense . I used to wonder when I hear people testify that they were pregnant for yrs.
DeleteIT IS A LIE. CRYPTIC PREGNANCY IS A SCAM IN NIGERIA. I CHALLENGE ANY OF THEM TO BRING THEIR BABIS FOR DNA. BABY FACTORY TINGS. WE KNOW THEM
DeleteSo true! Husbands, if ur wives should bring any cryptic pregnancy stories to u, do DNA, that baby was bought. Nothing like cryptic pregnancy. It is a scam for real
DeleteMay God have mercy on us😢
ReplyDeleteWow
ReplyDeleteThis is quite educating,
I just had a flash back of someone I know she told me her pregnancy was over 2 years, but in the "church" she attends ,she was told it was a spiritual attack .
Ignorance is bliss indeed .
Wow !!!
This is so surprising.
Pastors and their members have been claiming cryptic pregnancies since time immemorial.
ReplyDeleteSome bad add docs on the island do this too.
At the end, they steal someones baby and give to you if the money is right.
Note that; you should be able to see cryptic pregnancies on ultrasound EXCEPT YOU HAVE A UTERINE ABNORMALY.
So many people with normal uterus claiming cryptic pregnancies dey we no dey see because pastor said
DeletePastors and their members have been claiming cryptic pregnancies since time immemorial.
Some bad as$ docs on the island do this too.
They tell you never to go for scan elsewhere.
At the end, they steal someones baby and give to you if the money is right.
Note that; you should be able to see cryptic pregnancies on ultrasound EXCEPT YOU HAVE A UTERINE ABNORMALY.
So many people with normal uterus claiming cryptic pregnancies that are not visible on ultrasound because pastor said or because of these bad ass docs
Exactly!!!! Conduct a DNA on the alleged biological father and mother and you will find 0% genetic links to the child.
DeleteWell, I don't know about the hormonal part, And I couldn't finish this. But I have heard rumors that some of these hospitals make women believe they are pregnant while running an underground baby factory.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how possible this is medically. I just want everyone out there to be safe.
If you go to a hospital that keeps telling you not to go for scans or tests in other hospitals, ask them why.
Gbam gbamer gbamest
DeleteThat one is different. I've heard of a place like that is PH. The women obviously ain't pregnant,they just make them believe they are but the babies are hidden and can't be detected. They will never feel the baby or even go into Labour. They will just tell them come back in some months,give them concontions and give them a bought baby.
DeleteThese ones are actually carrying a child but may not have pregnancy symptoms and PT test and scan may show negative. They may go into Labour thinking it's just abdominal pains for those who don't know. Some may have known and have some symptoms like weight gain and foetal movement.
That's my little knowledge o,ain't a medic.
Yes B&R it's common in the East and PH. I've read about one here
DeleteAlso know someone that got hers in PH too.
DeleteI've read extensively about it o. Science is saying it's impossible to carry a pregnancy for years. That the most is 11/12 months. You can't ever carry a baby for years and deliver an live baby. Rather it will be what they call a stone baby. A miscarriage that wasn't expelled by the body but solidified there for years.
DeleteNow you can be pregnant and not know and keep seeing your period,your stomach may not even shoot out but you will go into Labour at the right time mistaking it for abdominal pain.
Think I will believe science. It is scientifically impossible to be pregnant for more than a year and give birth to a life baby. 11months yes,12 months yes. But 5/yrs nahhhhhh.
I'm confused biko.
Cryptic pregnancy is a scam. SO someone claims to have carried a pregnancy for 2 years plus, only a mid-wife can see the baby. No doctor, scan or any medical attempt sees the claimed baby. Then the woman "gives birth" and then is discharged same day-o. Then no breast milk.... In some silly cases, they have "twins" born several months apart.
DeleteAbeg na Baby factory things. It's the in thing in Port Harcourt, Aba and Akwa Ibom.
5months after i did surgery of etopic pregnancy, I became pregnant, for 19 months now, I am still pregnant, I have done blood and urine test, I have done more than 7 scan but yet they can't trace any baby, not even fibrod, they can't trace anything, yet my Tommy is growing, I feel d movement and kick of the baby, at times when d baby will move u will see it, each time d baby move I make sure I show it to different people to see, at a time I started using my pregnancy to do experiment by showing it to everyone around me, they will even touch my belle and confirms it, all the symtoms of pregnancy I felt all of them, the gathering of spit, my husband will keep bucket close to me to spit,the vomiting, the craving for food, pimples all over my face, swollen of legs and so many I cannot even explain, yet doctors can detect it, I snap pic from the 5 months till after 9 months even till date I am still snapping, so for those who think it's a scam,I pray u don't find urself in such situation.
DeleteA friend of mine is currently carrying one. She intentionally went through the procedures and hers won't be as long as that cos she takes medications to fasten the process (so they say). E no easy oh... Wish everyone going through this a Safe delivery.
ReplyDeleteYour friend is about to buy a baby
DeleteShe intentionally went through what????????? And you bought this story???? I pity any woman that intentionally deprives a child of the joy of living with their biological parents
DeleteShe’s buying a baby jare
Delete22 months to 9 whole freaking years...This is really scary.
ReplyDeleteNa lie. I will download my story tomorrow
DeleteMy own is will the baby come out being normal? How will the baby be. Because a foetus that has stayed 3/5yrs in the womb....... hmmmm.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm!!!!
ReplyDeleteVery scary
Good morning all. My first time being active here. I know someone who said she was pregnant and it was cryptic. They actually told her the day to meet with her spouse, asked her for their desired baby sex and also told her the size of her pocket will determine how many babies she would have. The paid a million plus to have a boy and was told if they want to have twins is two million plus. During the pregnancy, she was always in PH for antenatal because they told her they were the only one who could see and monitor the baby. And ones she was able to gather the complete money which can be paid instalmentally, she had the baby. I heard that if one does not pay completely, then the woman will be pregnant for a long time until all the money has been pd. Also, the woman's belly never shoots out but she will be getting bigger with no sign of pregnancy.The one that made me scared was that the woman would have a regular period,sometimes it would be heavier than normal not even sporting. Yet they told her the baby is intact and kicking. I learnt that when their clients have paid all, they will ask them to come over for delivery.
ReplyDeleteIt may be real but i don't believe the ones in PH or Nigeria. It looks fishy.
When she went to a normal hosp,she tested negative for pregnancy even with ultrasound. She had the baby already in the same clinic in ph according to her.
Hmmmmmm!!! Baby factory things
DeleteThis one is 419 pregnancy in conjunction with a Baby Factory
DeleteThat's not a cryptic pregnancy but fraud. Any woman who insists on going to particular places in PH to have her child, is not pregnant at all. PH and Etche are the headquarters for distributing STOLEN babies after faking pregnancy. Men, if your wife claims it's only one clinic in PH she can go, sorry but you're being scammed. Better enter labour ward with her cos hanty is not pregnant. There are drugs and injections they give them for their bodies to mimic pregnancy symptoms. It's not today this started in PH.
DeleteIts fake. Watched a programme abt it before. The place was also in PH. The woman has to travel from Lagos to PH to do ante-natal. No hospital or test will detect the pregnancy except them.
DeleteEven the ladys husband said he will never believe the child is his because his wife kept seeing her period and he never saw pregnancy signs. They give them babies bought from baby factories.
You better advise this person to go do DNA test on the child. But she will never agree. It's like the trance them in that place and they have so much believe in it.
Hmmmmmm desperation for a child and TTC can push women to believe anything. I try not to judge. The desperation clouds their judgement.
She sought for my opinion as a medical doctor, i told her that with all the test result, she is not pregnant and hv been brainwashed. A lot of women have fallen into such mess. I pray God blesses every woman with the fruits of the womb naturally because it's desperation has made many women commit atrocity unknowingly.
Deletethis is not the same as cryptic please...this one is 419. they deceive them and give them babies born by another person. on day of delivery they put them to sleep without CS and you wake up with a baby in your hand. a friend went to PH from night shift in lagos and came back to lag next day. meanwhile she said she had a tear. how can u have vaginal birth, have a tear and then fly the next day? mean while she never breastfed the boy? they didn't allow her do scan throughout cos they know if u do a scan u will never see anything. they just pump them with herbs that make u feel nauseous. I bet my right had that your friend went to a baby factory.
Deletei so much agree with you, that is the in thing now. These so called docs/nurses scout for desperate women, collect hugh amount of money from them and give them impression that they will have children through cryptic pregnancy, dangerous medications are given to you to make you look pregnant.At the end of the day, making you and the people around you believe that you are actually pregnant. Some women have silently died from these medications they took without even knowing. These medications causes very high raise in sugar level, blood pressure and other heart infections.Pls dont let anybody deceived you, always ask yourself when you want to embark in this cryptic pregnancy gibrish HOW CAN YOU GIVE BIRTH TO AT LEAST A 1.9KG BABY WITHOUT FEELING A KICK FOR ONE DAY!!!!. Even if the baby is in your bone marrow!! I know dis cause i was almost a victim
DeleteI said it! PH na their headquarter. Any woman who has to travel to PH to "give birth" is not pregnant in the first place. Some of them are put in a trance, some know exactly what they're doing. I'm just SMH at the story up there of the one who left Lagos after night shift and came back from PH the following day with a baby she says she gave birth to. As superwoman that she be na. I didn't say cryptic pregnancy doesn't exist but if PH (or Etche) is attached to the story, it's most likely baby factory fraud things.
DeleteMy distant uncle's wife went to PH to give birth after years of trying. No one ever saw her with pregnancy. Na wa for baby factory business
DeleteThey give them steroids to make them feel and look pregnant. In the process they dash them diabetes, hypertension, Cushing’s, and many other hormone problems from the medication side effect.
DeleteWhatever is not from God can never be without problems.
Women, go and adopt if you can’t afford fertility treatment. Run from ‘magical’ pregnancies.
Na wa.... O, women wahala
ReplyDeleteCryptic pregnancy is real. A friend I met in ijaw woman massage home has one. She will be pregnant scan can’t see it. But, she feels the kicks, even the hubby sees the baby movement and kick when she’s pregnant but no test or scan sees it. Nobody believes her.
ReplyDeleteThe first experience she had the doctors advised that is fibroid and as she was operated it was a five months on baby. It happened till she was able to google about it. You can be pregnant for 2yrs to 5yrs, the baby’s pace of growth is different. She scared the shit of me I ran.
I pray God will remember her cos she’s 10years in marriage. I told to do 4D scan that there’s nothing it doesn’t see then, I no understand the situation. They went and the sonographers embarrassed them and asked if you were expecting meanwhile she said she’s up to 6months. The hubby was so angry that they left angrily.
She said she’s tempted to tell the hubby to go and marry another woman. I told to delete the thought and keep moving afterall, if na men you dey pity them till solution is found.
She believe is an uncle in the village sha till she read about it online. I don tire to type.
Cryptic pregnancy is real for you and it does not only happen to Nigerian women but I feel that the doctors and nurses who have gone abroad to learn the techniques are fraud. A friend of mine is is at the moment carrying this pregnancy and we have contacted a clinic in Indian and was advised that Nigerian come to learn the inssamination as these are for women who could not get pregnant but the price Nigerian doctors are charging are rediclous. The doctor explain that women are given injection once to 9 months to allow the baby to deliver quickly. My friend is a nurse have asked for this injection to be send to her.
Deletemy cousin's wife had this hers lasted for 5yrs, she gave birth 2yrs ago to a very beautiful girl, the babe is very active and sound physically and mentally.
ReplyDeletethough sometimes she acts older than her age.
lol
Your cousin is raising a bought baby or his wife took in spontaneously 9 months before delivery.
DeleteI have an aunt who had this cryptic pregnancy years back. Like the normal Agu can family everyone thought some village people were in her case...well she birthed a beautiful baby girl after 4 years and I can say authoritatively that my cousin is normal like everyone else.
ReplyDeleteIt's my first time of reading about this and I am sure going to send a link of this post to some of my family members so that they can stop spreading false news about what my aunty went through...Thanks stella
LEP😛
The girl will he normal but sorry to let you know your cousin was either bought or your aunty took in spontaneously 9 months before she was born. She probably missed her calculation or was deceived and sold a baby to
DeleteI will not even validate this post by writing long epistle. Please just subject those so called cryptic pregnancy babies to DNA test and see wonders.
ReplyDeleteP.S The document on wikipedia could have been put up by anyone and please note that it states that there is no medical evidence to back this up.
This is a sham scam for desperate and gullible individuals
The first sensible post here. Well done dauntless
DeletePregnancy for 2 to 5yrs ??? It's not possible !!!
ReplyDeleteYes am born after 11 months & 2weeks almost a yr in my mother's womb
DeleteAmacastel,I m happy you are a nurse.
DeleteNow,Tell me why we induce woman on 41 wks plus 3?
The placenta,which is the only way any baby can eat,has a best before date. its best before 40 wks. After 40 weeks the function drops drastically and cause fetal growth retardation.
Also baby's skull ll start ossifying and may not be able to pass through the vagina.
Cryptic Pregnancy does NOT exist.
We do have pseudocyesis where a woman is so convinced she is pregnant that she develops all the symptoms of pregnancy without being pregnant
I follow you aaask?
Deletei was born after 1 year in my mothers womb. cryptic pregnancy is real, tho some are scam.
ReplyDeletecryptic pregnancy is real, tho some are scam sha, i was given birth to, after staying a year in my mothers womb
ReplyDeleteSo how is that cryptic? Did you mum's pt read negative for 1 year?
DeleteIt is very, very real my elder brother stayed 23months in the womb before he was born. . But my mom says it's village people
ReplyDeleteWomen be careful, do not because of desperation unintentionally engage yourselves to these baby factory mess. It will be very embarrassing in the future
ReplyDeleteCryptic pregnancy is very real, but can't be made to happen. I am currently going through one. Only thing that detected the babies is a fetal doppler. You can hear their heartbeat clearly. One positive test, no period, belly protruding. All negative scan. Gone to the so called delivery places round Nigeria all fake,I'm alert and didn't fall for their scam. Still very much pregnant, hopefully the babies come soon. As the doctors won't attend to what they can't see via scan. I have tried induction drugs on my own, baby's head drops low but cervix refuses to open. Extended gestation is real. Cryptic pregnancy is very real, but can't be made to happen.
ReplyDeleteI might be going through a cryptic pregnancy. I have been having symptoms since last year April. One time the sonogram says its a baby,next time its a cyst on my uterus. Then they don't see nothing everything is normal. One time I feel pregnant,next time I feel nothing. One time I have a pregnant looking belly. Next day I can see my abs. But i feel the movements. I feel sudden pushing between my anus and vagina. Then it suddenly stops. No one believe me except my three children. At times I feel the baby walking when i Lay on my side. And if I press my tummy i feel a huge thing drifting to some other place in my tummy. My children see the movements in my tummy. My spouse do too. My boobs grow. My weight fluctuat alot. I feel my puls even if i rest my head on my arms. I get soreness in my tummy and back area alot,it feels like i was beaten badly about my body. But the soreness is felt inside my body more than outside. It's a strange thing for any woman to go through. And more painful is that because of proof no one believes you are pregnant. My womb is both anteverted and retroflexed. Making it hard for ultra sound to see anything. I know how I feel. No one has to believe me. But when my baby is born I will make the world understand that God still do miracles.
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