Naturally, a suspicion as to her virtue came into her husband's mind, but when he considered that she had never left her bed for fifteen months he thought the pregnancy impossible.

Still the wife insisted that she was pregnant and was confirmed in the belief by a midwife.

The belly continued to increase, and about eleven months after the cessation of the menses she had the pains of labor.

Three doctors and an accoucheur were present, and when they claimed that the fetal head presented the husband gave up in despair; but the supposed fetus was born shortly after, and proved to be only a mass of hydatids, with not the sign of a true pregnancy.
Girard of Lyons speaks of a female who had been pregnant several times, but again experienced the signs of pregnancy.

Her mammae were engorged with a lactescent fluid, and she felt belly-movements like those of a child; but during all this time she had regular menstruation.