Must be more common than I realised! Now I don't feel so alone

Well, technically speaking, phantom pregnancy is a real thing. Queen Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) had two of them in her life. If you are convinced in your brain that you are pregnant, your body will play along and you can develop a baby bump, convince yourself you feel kicks and movement.. it's a legitimate psychosomatic condition.

However, if you don't think you're pregnant, then you're probably just feeling gas pains, etc. When your first pregnant, and you feel the first kicks, you find yourself wondering if it's gas or the baby.

I think it's more my birth control taking over and tricking my body to feel pregnant, and then the kicking feeling I think could possibly be my mind drifting to thinking "maybe I am really pregnant" even though I know it is almost impossible. I swear the kicking is real and not gas, though!! Haha. I remember the butterfly feelings when I was first feeling my son moving, and what I have been having is more like 30 weeks pregnant kicking! Haha, that would be funny if I went to a doctor and they told me it was gas, how embarrassing would that be!?!?

One of my mum's friends told me that she once had a phantom pregnancy and even her blood tests came back saying she was pregnant. The doctors were so confused because there was definitely no baby! lol.

This literally just happened to me. Haha. But I know I'm not pregnant.

Must be all these lucky ladies on here making us jealous of their baby bumps! haha