Can you be pregnant for 3 years?

The group describes the condition as: "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.
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Has a woman been pregnant for 3 years?

Woman, 40, claims she's been pregnant for three years after suffering nine miscarriages. HAVING had a growing baby bump for a staggering three and a half years - Sarah Holliday believes she's had the world's longest pregnancy. The 40-year-old, from Fort Collins, Colorado, became pregnant in July 2016.
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What is the longest a woman has been pregnant?

But other doctors at Los Angeles' Methodist Hospital found it incredible that Mrs. Hunter had been pregnant 375 days (instead of the normal 280) before her baby was born there last week; 375 days would be the longest pregnancy on record, topping the runner-up by about 58 days. The evidence as presented by Dr.
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Can pregnancy last for 5 years?

Retention of the dead baby in utero for five years is virtually impossible to believe.
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Can you be pregnant for more than a year?

Most pregnancies last 37 to 42 weeks, but some take longer. If your pregnancy lasts more than 42 weeks, it is called post-term (past due). This happens in a small number of pregnancies. While there are some risks in a post-term pregnancy, most post-term babies are born healthy.
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What happens if baby stays in womb too long?

If your baby stays in the womb for too long they are more likely to be a stillbirth, or weigh too little or be more likely to have a neurological disorder, because the longer a baby stays in the womb the more likely the placenta is to stop functioning normally."
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What's the longest a baby has been overdue?

Baby Penny was more than 100 days overdue, with her mother recording the longest known human pregnancy at 375 days. The average healthy pregnancy is around 40 weeks (280 days) gestation, but Beulah was pregnant for one year and 10 days.
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Can a 9 year old be pregnant?

A woman becomes able to get pregnant when she ovulates for the first time — about 14 days before her first menstrual period. This happens to some women as early as when they are eight years old, or even earlier.
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What causes long pregnancy?

It is not known why some women carry a pregnancy longer than others. It is often due to a miscalculation of pregnancy conception dates. A woman is much more likely to have a post-term pregnancy if previous pregnancies went beyond 42 weeks.
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Will I be pregnant forever?

Rarely, an overdue pregnancy might be related to problems with the placenta or the baby. Whatever the cause, you're probably tired of being pregnant, not to mention anxious. Rest assured, an overdue pregnancy won't last forever.
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What is a stone baby?

A lithopedion (also spelled lithopaedion; from Ancient Greek: λίθος "stone" and Ancient Greek: παιδίον "small child, infant"), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as part ...
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Can men get pregnant?

'" Since 2000, several hoax web sites have appeared on the Internet purporting to describe the world's first pregnant man. While some rely on legitimate scientific claims, no such experiment has ever been reported.
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Can a woman be pregnant for 11 months?

Director of Health Services, Dr Simon Zwane said it was not normal for a person to be pregnant for 11 months. “This is not normal and I don't think this woman was pregnant for 11 months. Sometimes it happens that women miscalculate the months. Medically, a woman should give birth within 38 to 40 weeks of pregnancy.
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What is the shortest pregnancy in humans?

The world's smallest surviving baby has been discharged from the hospital five months after she was born at just 23 weeks gestation, according to the hospital.
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Can you have phantom pregnancy?

A false pregnancy is also known as a phantom pregnancy, or by the clinical term pseudocyesis. It's an uncommon condition that causes a woman to believe she's pregnant. She'll even have many classic symptoms of pregnancy. But this isn't related to a miscarriage.
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What is cryptic pregnancy?

Cryptic pregnancy happens when a woman becomes pregnant but doesn't know she is. She might not become aware she is pregnant until very late into her pregnancy or even at the time of birth.
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What is postdate pregnancy?

Definitions. Postterm pregnancy is defined as pregnancy that has extended to or beyond 42 weeks of gestation (294 days), or estimated date of delivery (EDD) + 14 days (ACOG, 2004). The terms prolonged pregnancy, postdates and postdatism are synonymously used to describe the same condition.
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What happens if I go past 42 weeks?

There's a higher risk of stillbirth if you go over 42 weeks pregnant, although most babies remain healthy. At the moment, there's no way to reliably predict which babies are at increased risk of stillbirth, so induction is offered if you do not go into labour by 42 weeks.
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How far past due date can you go?

Most doctors and midwives are happy for you to go a few days over your due date as long as everything seems to be okay. Many will let pregnant women go up to two weeks over. After 42 weeks, however, the baby's health might be at risk.
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Can a 12 year old fall in love?

The age in which tweens develop romantic interests in other people varies tremendously from child to child. Some kids may start expressing interest in having a boyfriend or girlfriend as early as age 10 while others are 12 or 13 before they show any interest.
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Can a 14 year old get a 13 year old pregnant?

A woman can get pregnant if she has vaginal sex with a man at any age after she's begun having regular monthly periods. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , in 2017, around 194,000 babies were born to American girls between the ages of 15 to 19.
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Can a 12 year old have a boyfriend?

"There is no law about when you are old enough to have a girlfriend or boyfriend, unlike the age of consent. You need to know your child well, because some children may be ready for a relationship at 12 but another not until they are 17."
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Can two pregnant ladies meet?

Yes. It completely safe for two pregnant ladies to stay together.
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Can you hear a baby cry in the womb?

While it's true your baby can cry in the womb, it doesn't make a sound, and it's not something to worry about. The baby's practice cries include imitating the breathing pattern, facial expression, and mouth movements of a baby crying outside of the womb.
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What is the longest labor ever?

After 75 days – and what is believed to be the longest labour ever recorded – Mrs Krzysztonek gave birth to a healthy girl, Iga, and boy, Ignacy, at a neo-natal clinic in the Polish town of Wroclaw. Yesterday she said she had not been put off by the prospect of lying in such an awkward position for months.
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