Doctors perform c-section but discover there’s no baby
by Carder
Doctors in southern Brazil performed a cesarean section on a 37-year-old woman only to discover that she wasn’t pregnant.
Simone Carvalho, spokeswoman for the Health Department of the coastal city of Cabo Frio, said Tuesday the woman told doctors at the city’s Woman’s Hospital she was 41 weeks pregnant and in pain.
Carvalho said one reason doctors believed she was pregnant was because “she had the symptoms associated with pregnancy like an enlarged abdomen and nausea.”
“Doctors could not hear the baby’s heartbeat and feeling its life was in danger ordered an emergency cesarean after which they discovered it was a false pregnancy,” she said.
The spokeswoman added the woman “was so convinced she was pregnant, that she altered her prenatal tests that showed otherwise because she was convinced the results were wrong.”
~ CBS News report on the circumstances surrounding a c-section that revealed the patient was not pregnant, December 17
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Mmmm okay. now and again you get a strange story like this. No ultrasound? Just sloppy medical care.