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Initech

(100,100 posts) Tue Mar 25, 2014, 05:43 PM Mar 2014

Toronto Man Expecting Quintuplets Finds Out Wife Isn't Actually Pregnant

MONTREAL — A man who believed for months that he was going to be the father of quintuplets instead found out in hospital his girlfriend was never pregnant.

Delivery day came and went on Wednesday and only then did Paul Servat, 35, realize Barbara Bienvenue, 37, wasn't with children.

A disappointed and tearful father recounted his dashed dreams to QMI Agency at his home south of Montreal, in the baby room filled with five colourfully adorned cribs that lie empty.

"She let me choose the names," Servat, 35, said between sobs, surrounded by donated gifts for the five fictitious babies.

"I lost everything, it was my whole life."

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/03/20/dad-to-be-shocked-girlfriend-wasnt-even-expecting

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Toronto Man Expecting Quintuplets Finds Out Wife Isn't Actually Pregnant (Original Post) Initech Mar 2014 OP

I'm glad the girlfriend is being kept for Ilsa Mar 2014 #1

That's what I wondered too. And her stomach did become quite large. TxDemChem Mar 2014 #2

I'm surprised he didn't attend any "appointments" Ilsa Mar 2014 #3

That's a definite possibility. He seems like TxDemChem Mar 2014 #4

It's a crazy story, but I feel bad for the couple Victor_c3 Mar 2014 #5

Ilsa

(61,697 posts)

1. I'm glad the girlfriend is being kept for

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:39 PM

Mar 2014

Psychiatric observation. She had even started lactating. I wonder if she lost another pregnancy.

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)

2. That's what I wondered too. And her stomach did become quite large.

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:50 PM

Mar 2014

If ever there was a bad turn out from psychosomatic symptoms, this was it. I read on some other forums that people were trashing her, and I would guess they have a point if she kept coming back saying there was one more baby but never saw an OB-GYN to confirm her own count perhaps because she suspected she may not pregnant, or if she chose some alternative care and they never did any full testing. Either way, it's a sad case all around. I feel for the boyfriend.

Ilsa

(61,697 posts)

3. I'm surprised he didn't attend any "appointments"

Reply to TxDemChem (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:56 PM

Mar 2014

with her, but I bet she worked up her excuses to keep hiding her true condition.

She's ill. Very ill.

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)

4. That's a definite possibility. He seems like

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:58 PM

Mar 2014

he was legitimately excited at the prospect of having children.

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)

5. It's a crazy story, but I feel bad for the couple

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Wed Mar 26, 2014, 08:24 AM

Mar 2014

The guy was obviously excited to be a dad and it doesn't appear that the woman was trying to mislead him. Hell even she herself was so convinced that she was pregnant that she began to lactate and her belly even grew.

As was mentioned in other post above, I wonder if the woman lost a baby during a previous pregnancy.

As a very involved father myself, I really feel bad for the guy. I'm sure the woman is a victim in this instance too.

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