Pregnant man? - with link..

Calimama wrote: http://www.malepregnancy.com/index.shtml

What do you think? He was on the cover of Time magazine!?

BabyOwen427 replied: I've seen this many times, it's fake.

Calimama replied:
DH and I were debating on whether or not it was. At least now I can sleep without wondering!

Nina J replied: How could a man carry a baby? They don't have a uterus...

Calimama replied: I didn't realize it was fake when I posted it. Sorry.

Nina J replied:
You've got nothing to be sorry about, lol...I think it's interesting. If it's fake, why is there a website and stuff about it??

edited to say: It sounds like I'm saying it must be real, because there a website about it. I meant why are they maintaining a website about it when it's not real?

MoonMama replied: Say what?!?!?

redplaydoh replied: I really hope that it is fake. One thing that makes me thing that it is, is the fact that there are two statements I believe are completely false. Having gone through IVF myself I took hormones to regulate my cycle and continued them for the first few months of my pregnancies, until my body could take over. It stated he's done the same thing, but without ovaries HOW can his body "take over"? I knew women from my cycle group that had poorly functioning ovaries and they would've continued hormones throughout their pregnancy.
Secondly when they said that biologically it would be possible for him to breast feed... males don't have milk ducts and pregnancy doesn't automatically make you produce these.
So based on those facts I believe it is false, however why would TIME mag make a cover story on a hoax?

C&K*s Mommie replied:

CantWait replied: I don't think this is even possible...........what a sick joke indeed. Absolutely disgusting. He should be ashamed for mocking something so natural and so beautiful

mom2my2cuties replied: It is interesting that you all say this is fake based on the fact that he is a man. One of my former A&P instructors. A Pakistani doctor, addressed this and actually said it was possible for a male to carry a baby to term if it was properly imbedded into his abdominal cavity.

While I am not sure how I feel about it, and I really don't care if it's real or fake I just thought this was interesting.

Also, in theory, men can breastfeed. Male breasts have milk ducts, and some mammary tissue. They also have oxytocin and prolactin, the hormones responsible for milk production. There have been reports of men who were able to produce milk through extensive breast and nipple stimulation, but no one knows whether the milk was of the same composition or quality as the kind women produce.

CantWait replied:
I just finished watching a documentry on TLC I believe that said that it's virtually impossible to carry a fetus in the abdominal area because it will calcify. It is the bodies way of rejecting what it sees as a foreign object, and instead builds a wall around it so that (the body saying this) does not pose infection.