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Phantom Pregnancy Awareness Flag
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I made this in mind for those with schizospec, psychosis, delusions, hallucinations, exomemories, plural folks etc who all deal with Phantom Pregnancies. I don't see people talk about it much but i feel like its important. I may make an updated flag as i made this for a temporary one for now for ourself.
This Flag is Not:
For kink / nsft / fetishes
A transid term ( "transpregnant" )
Meant to be mocking, romanticizing, or rude.
A gender
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Obi-Wan having a phantom pregnancy for Luke and Leia.
Like Padme is actually having the twins but Obi-Wan is having all her symptoms.
Padme: -well rested, glowing and beautiful goddess mode.- I hardly feel like I’m pregnant.
Meanwhile Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan: I can’t sleep, my back is killing me, my ankles have swollen along with my chest. I’m constantly hungry and my emotions are wild. I’ve been sick in the morning, I’ve had acne for the first time in years. Certain smells make me sick. All I want to do is nap!-is crying while speaking- Anakin is acting strange and all I want is to be fucked like an animal. I’ve been to healer Che 7 times and I’m not pregnant or mentally ill?! What’s happening?!
No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |
“I guess”
I don’t really understand the appeal of it, when there’s no actual creature.
But!!!
I think if the phantom pregnancy involves forces that act independently on the body, like ghosts, or something that causes unusual sensory phenomenons… I mean… I think I’d like it.
If not much happens other than the inflation though? Yeah I don’t really see the appeal. For me it’s all about dramatic changes and/or consequences.
KINK RATING TIME: Send me a kink and I’ll rate it!
There has been so much speculative talk about D getting pregnant in s8. This talk about an unexpected pregnancy includes J and D getting married, having lots of babies, sitting on the Iron Throne together and living happily ever after.
There is even a blind item about an unlikely pregnancy on tvline - https://tvline.com/gallery/blind-items-revealed-ausiello/#!15/unlikely-pregnancy-no-3/
For some time, I have been thinking about the possibility that D might end up pregnant with Jon’s baby. Since s1, Jon has talked about not wanting to father a bastard which could be a foreshadowing that he will get someone pregnant.
I think that D has always wanted to have a human baby but believed that she was infertile because of what Mirri Maz Duur told her. I think that after Jon pointed out to her that the person who told her she was infertile was not a reliable source, D may have started to wonder if he might be right and that she could get pregnant after all. It may have stirred up her long-held and repressed desire to have a family, love and that house with a red door.
What if GRRM and Ds decide to add a twist to the accidental pregnancy trope? What if she has a phantom pregnancy? Historians believe that Queen Mary Tudor, King Henry VII’s granddaughter, had a phantom pregnancy - the medical term is pseudocyesis.
If D has a phantom pregnancy, it would be heartbreaking for her and it would feed into her increasing paranoia and her descent into madness. She might believe that someone killed her baby, reminiscent of Mirri Maz Duur in s1 but in this case, she was never pregnant. Coupled with the news of Jon’s trueborn parentage and Cersei’s breaking of the truce, D could have an emotional meltdown. In that kind of situation, she would do something truly horrible, making it clear to everyone once and for all that she has become the Mad Queen.
I’m kind of freaking out. I am already an insomniac (especially during the summer). But every night for the past two months i have not only not able to fall asleep but i can feel my heartbeat in my lower abdomen. It’s driving me crazy, wakes me up if i do manage to fall asleep.
There were a couple of weeks where i was bloated and in constant pain and i read some stuff online that convinced me that i was pregnant and had an entrapped uterus. So i started hanging out inverted for as much time a day as i could stand it. Laying on a bed on my stomach with pillows under my hips or w/my knees bent under me in a kneeling position. Planks off a high bed with my hips in the air or even bracing on my forearms with my head down to the floor for five minutes at a stretch. It hurt horribly for the first two days (there was so much pressure down there and i was hypersensitive) but it gradually got better and i know my uterus went from retrograde to a normal position.
While my uterus was still retrograde i went to an urgent care clinic because i hadn’t even been able to sleep at all one night. The pain wasn’t horrific but it was constant. Taking Advil 24/7 did not help at all. They did some ultrasounds of my ovaries and found one tiny cyst. The ultrasound tech tells me that a burst cyst hurts for 3-4 days. I had already been in pain for longer than that and it was at its worst that day. The pregnancy test they gave me was negative and i don’t think they looked for a baby in the ultrasound.
I had to wait two weeks to see an OBGYN. Who basically treated me like “Why are you even here?” and denied that my pain was caused by my “insignificantly tiny” cyst. That day was the smallest amount of pain i had been in for 3-4 weeks, my bloating had finally gone down but i was still tender.
He did a test to rule out uterine cancer (which of course gave me more pain and new bleeding), told me i have PCOS without doing a single test to confirm (i was guessing this was the case but come on, please confirm this is my actual issue), and pushed me to go on birth control or, barring that, progesterone to get my periods to start. My mother got blood clots from birth control which means that i am at risk for same...and i'm not even sexually active. I'm technically still a virgin and have been intimate once in ten years. So i go on progesterone, to which he says doesn't work as well as BCP and that i'll probably have a horrific first period since i haven't had a normal period in two years and even when i still had a period it was only spotting.
So ~3 weeks later (had to get them to call the pharmacy more than once to even fill my script) i finally start my period (hallelujah!)...which is light-medium flow for a couple of days, light-spotting flow for a week thereafter. Normal length but still incredibly light and not at all horrific. Less cramping and clotting than usual in fact.
And this entire time i feel this gassy/butterfly flutter/tapping/heartrate issue taking up more and more of my lower abdomen and getting stronger/starting to feel like tapping. It started out like halfway between my pubic bone and my bellybutton felt like a harder ball of muscle to me and now it feels hard all the way up to my bellybutton from just above my pubic bone.
The fat on my lower stomach has spread out across my hips, my waist has widened at my waistline, i don't feel fatter but i feel like i lost what little hip i had, like my innards are taking up more space. If i wear a belt there's no hips left to support my shorts, all the pressure is on my lower stomach and it makes me more aware of everything that's going on down there. Pressure does not feel good, especially something like a belt buckle or waist button pressing into me by my belly button.
So i was intimate with my boyfriend once, no actual intercourse, and i do not want to have a baby w/him. My cervix position indicated i had just ovulated (which i didn't realize until after he pressured me into doing this). i've taken 9 negative tests over the past 3-4 months, two tests that were defective and the control line didn't even show up. There is no way i should be pregnant. But i have pregnancy symptoms that i didn't know were pregnancy symptoms until i looked them up to try to figure out wth is going on w/my body.
i am either pregnant or have an aortic aneurysm in my stomach or have the weirdest case of irritable bowl syndrom ever that should only be possible if i had some sort of stomach surgery like appendix removal/c-section/hysterectomy...all of which do not apply.
I don't know why the asshole doctor wasn't concerned about the constant pain i'd been in for a month straight, i finally found a Primary Care Provider and have no idea how long it will be before i can set up an appointment. Oh, and all summer i have had high blood pressure and been a low sodium diet and a month of blood pressure pills that seemed to make my fatigue and nausea worse and didn't really help my blood pressure.
The miracle is that despite my mystery illness and unemployment my spirits have been up and i have not been depressed since my pain improved. The problem is that while i'm not in constant pain anymore i am still too uncomfortable to sleep properly. I have now gotten to the point where i feel this tapping/heartbeat stuff nearly all day long.
