Doctors perform C-section on empty womb
What you need to know:
- It was considered as a false pregnancy - when a non-pregnant woman convinces herself otherwise and displays all the symptoms.
- She was released from the hospital and referred to psychiatric care.
Doctors performed an emergency C-section on an empty womb after the woman convinced herself she was expecting.
A "heavily pregnant" 37-year-old woman, who was supposedly in labour had an emergency C-section after the doctors couldn't detect the baby's heartbeat, however, upon surgery they discovered her womb was empty.
The hospital's director Roaslice Almeida told Brazil's Globo G1 website: "She'd done her whole pre-natal and was already overdue.
"Because the doctors couldn't pick up the heartbeat, they decided there wasn't time to request an ultrasound.
'GREAT SHOCK'
"They did the surgery then had the great shock of not finding any baby at all."
It was considered as a false pregnancy - when a non-pregnant woman convinces herself otherwise and displays all the symptoms.
However, the woman's husband told doctors this was her second pregnancy in the space of a year. She also claimed her previous pregnancy resulted in the loss of the child but never produced a death certificate.
She was released from the hospital and referred to psychiatric care.
