Bizzare: ‘Pregnant man’ Male Pregnancy?!

Well this is the first time for me to post a bizzare thing like this which is an American man, Thomas Beatie, 34, of Bend, Oregon who claims he is six months pregnant. However, he used to be a woman before undergoing gender reassignment surgery.

Check this : ‘Pregnant man’ goes on Oprah Winfrey show.

Speaking on Oprah Winfrey’s Show, he said: “Different is normal and love makes a family. And that’s all that matters.”

Beatie appeared with his wife, Nancy, for the interview. The audience was shown footage of his ultrasound scan and heard the sound of a heartbeat. As he saw the scan on the monitor, Beatie told the doctor: “She’s kicking. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe she’s inside me. This is a miracle. We see this as a miracle.”

How does it feel to be a pregnant man? “Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am. In a technical sense I see myself as my own surrogate, though my gender identity as male is constant. To Nancy, I am her husband carrying our child—I am so lucky to have such a loving, supportive wife. I will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.

Outside the local medical community, people don’t know I’m five months’ pregnant. But our situation ultimately will ask everyone to embrace the gamut of human possibility and to define for themselves what is normal.

He described pregnancy as a “human desire”, not limited to women. “I’m a person and I have the right to have my own biological child,” he said. Beatie said pregnancy did not make him feel more feminine.

“It doesn’t make me want to go and shave my legs or something,” he said. “I’m a man, I just happen to be a pregnant man.” He told Winfrey he had had a sex change but had not altered his reproductive organs because he wanted to have a child.

Is society ready for this pregnant husband?

What do you think if a man be able to experience the same joy and excitement as a pregnant woman feels within?!

Like what has happened in Junior (1994), a comedy film that revolves around the world’s first human male pregnancy starring by Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own.

Anyway, now that pregnant men becomes a reality in life, RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center, for male pregnancy is still in its experimental stage. In this case their research is experimented in Mr. Lee Mingwei, artist who has had solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art and, of course, became the first human man to successfully become pregnant. He will be the first human male to ever birth a baby from his own body.

Based on RYT researched, in vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques were used to induce an ectopic pregnancy by implanting an embryo and placenta into the abdominal cavity, just under the peritoneum (the surrounding lining). Please read below for the step-by-step process.

1. HORMONES

Oral doses of female hormones were administered to Mr. Lee, to make him receptive to the pregnancy. The following graphs of his hormone treatment were prepared by Simone M. Lowell, M.D., Ph.D., Attending Physician and Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Reproductive Medicine at RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center. Dr. Lowell’s research is one of the primary reasons that this clinical procedure is now possible.

2. IMPLANTATION

IVF techniques were used to induce an ectopic pregnancy by implanting an embryo and placenta into the abdominal cavity, just under or into the peritoneum (the surrounding lining). There is a severe risk of massive hemorrhage when the ectopic ruptures; this is also the most common cause of women dying in pregnancy.

3. EMBRYO GROWTH

Once implantation was complete, Mr. Lee stopped taking hormones, because the pregnancy itself, as expected, took over. The embryo secretes sufficient hormones to maintain its own growth and development.

In the years since the first “test tube baby” was born in 1978, physicians and scientists from RYT Hospital have been working to develop a viable technique for the successful impregnation of male individuals. Illustrated to the right is a recent radiographic image of Mr. Lee, the first human subject to attempt this procedure, which shows the healthy fetus developing in his abdominal cavity.

4. GROWTH OF THE FETUS

The duration of the pregnancy has been surprisingly normal, i.e. fetal heart monitoring, chorionic villus sampling, ultrasound scanning (as seen on this web site), and a constant watch over Mr. Lee’s health and his enlarging stomach. “Men, as they grow older,” Dr. Winston of London’s Hammersmith Hospital observed playfully, “have already learned to cope with a steadily expanding waistline. Granted, well, this is a bit different.”

5. DELIVERY

The delivery will requires open surgery (Cesarean section) to remove the baby and the placenta. Removal of the placenta is the real danger because it forms such intimate connections with surrounding vessels that massive hemorrhage is likely. Implantation may have also involved other structures in the abdomen, including the bowel and it is possible that parts of other organs may need to be removed. Several physicians who are well-accustomed to advanced and dangerous forms of ectopic pregnancies will be on-hand to handle any complications.

Eeeewwww, pfffttt…..yea right! *dizzy*
So technically, isn’t this still a female pregnancy?

I think that this is not a pregnant man. He may look like a man on the outside but organs on the inside say otherwise, Fe-male.

As for me it’s weird, Gosh, world is going crazy with it weird offbeat science!!