Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Sympathetic pregnancy? Or is Jarad just eating at McDonalds a lot?


As you can clearly see, Jarad's breasts and belly grew and now look much like those of a pregnant woman. He is also suffering from spotty memory issues, similar to those experienced by many pregnant women.  Now at our apartment, things go missing everyday.  Ordinarily, upon misplacing a library CD that I know was last seen in this apartment, I might think to myself, "I must have put it somewhere that it definitely doesn't belong when I wasn't paying attention".  (I currently have a higher tendency to put utensils in the desk drawers, or pens in the refrigerator.)  But now I have to wonder, could Jarad have done something strange with the missing CD? He claims to know nothing, but with his "pregnancy brain" like symptoms you never can be too sure.

Couvade Syndrome, also known as Sympathetic Pregnancy is a common condition of people living close to pregnant women. This, however, includes mainly the behavioral and internal pregnancy symptoms, such as labor pains, food cravings and postpartum depression. So it does not account for changes in physical appearance.  Thus, I have two theories to explain what you see in this picture.

Theory 1: Jarad has been eating at McDonalds a lot. The hormones and chemicals in their food increased his estrogen hormone levels causing his body to develop more feminine features and a gut.

Theory 2: Jarad is experiencing a more advanced version of Sympathetic Pregnancy. He's taking the syndrome to a new level never seen before by humans. Who knows, he may actually give birth too.

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