A woman who had a phantom pregnancy after telling her boyfriend that she was carrying quadruplets- and then quintuplets- has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
The woman, who has only been identified as Barbara, appealed for gifts from her community to prepare her and her boyfriend Paul.
The Quebec couple met online and she told him that she was pregnant with twins just one month after they met.
Canadian news station CTV reports that the number of babies continued to change- from twins to triplets then to quadruplets, where it remained for the majority of the pregnancy.
A Facebook page was made to document the pregnancy and, eventually, display the gifts that the couple received from their neighbors and local businesses.
'I used my personal and professional contacts to get her sponsorships. Others gave her all sorts of clothes or furniture,' a friend of 35-year-old Barbara told The Toronto Sun.
The first person to become suspicious of the situation was Genevieve Laflamme who recently gave birth to triplets.
'I gave her tips on how to handle it, where to get financial support, where to get sponsors for diapers,' Ms Laflamme told CTV.
She reportedly started to question Barbara's version of events when she found unspecified holes in her story.
One of the clearest examples that something was awry came just a week before Barbara's alleged due date when she told Ms Laflamme that a new ultrasound showed that she was having quintuplets.
The fact that she was up and moving so close to her alleged due date should have also come as a sign of trouble.
A full term single pregnancy is 37 weeks, but women carrying multiple children regularly go into labor or doctor-mandated bed rest months before that.
Source-Dailym
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