Can I feel pregnant when my wife is?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 6 May 2008

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Sympathy pregnancy is the condition where a man feels pregnant while his wife actually is. Learn more about the symptoms for sympathy pregnancy in this HowStuffWorks podcast.

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0:41.0	Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.2	I am a staff writer here at HowStuffWorks.com and with me is trusty editor Candice Gibson.
0:49.5	Candice is an editor or editor.
0:52.6	I'm gonna go with editorics just because it sounds authoritative.
0:55.7	And I'm feeling pretty authoritative today because I've got a really weird question for you
0:59.8	and I already know the answer.
1:02.1	Can I, assuming I'm a man, feel pregnant when my wife is?
1:07.1	The answer is a resounding yes at least from anecdotal evidence.
1:11.8	We're talking about Kuwait or Kuvaud Syndrome first described by Hippocrates I believe
1:17.3	in 300 BC, correct?
1:19.2	That's right.
1:20.2	If you don't feel like whipping out your friends, you could also call it false pregnancy or sympathetic
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