A cryptic pregnancy has been described as a pregnancy in which a woman is unaware that she is expecting a baby until halfway through it, or even up until labor or birth. Sometimes this is called a "stealth" or "denied" pregnancy.
However, in the recent times especially in Nigeria, stories abound as to clinics specialized in Cryptic Pregnancy which cannot be detected in the medical Laboratory tests and Imaging in another centers except in the specific clinics
Dear colleagues in the Research community, please could we discuss this cryptic pregnancy with evidence based Research to back up the claims.
Thanks ALL in anticipation.
Cryptic pregnancy has no scientific evidence. It is not possible to misdiagnose live pregnancy by ultrasound from 10-12 weeks unless there are cultural needs to do so. Bringing stories from Nigeria means there is a cultural need in Nigeria to deny pregnancy, perhaps to enable abortion, protect women from wife beaters etc. There are oodles of reasons for women to deny being pregnant to themselves and to others. There is no scientific evidence behind the term cryptic pregnancy. I have attended the births of women who denied knowing they were pregnant when they went into labor at full term. They had good reasons to deny being pregnant.