Man Expecting Quintuplets Finds Out His Girlfriend Isn’t Pregnant

A Canadian man who thought he would
soon be the father of five babies instead
received a devastating surprise.
The Toronto Sun reports that Paul Servat
was expecting his girlfriend to deliver
quintuplets. Her stomach swelled, she
began lactating and donations from
neighbors and friends of the Saint-
Jean-sur-Richelieu couple poured in.
But on Wednesday, Servat was taken
aside by a nurse who told him there was
no record of any pregnancy and that
his partner was not carrying any
children.
“We were so happy,” Servat said. “Even
my parents, they were so looking forward
to having grandchildren. I lost my whole
life.”
Now Servat is searching for answers.
Geneviève Laflamme, a mother of
triplets who befriended the couple, told
CTV News that parts of the woman’s
story didn’t add up. Laflamme became
skeptical after the woman kept adding
to the number of expected children —
first one, then two, then three, four and
five.
Dr. Haim Abenhaim, an obstetrician and
gynecologist at Montreal’s Jewish
General Hospital, told CTV that Servat’s
girlfriend may have had pseudocyesis, a
condition in which physical signs of
pregnancy manifest, but there’s no
actual pregnancy.
Servat’s girlfriend is undergoing a
psychiatric evaluation.