Simulated pregnancy

A simulated pregnancy is a deliberate attempt to create the false impression of pregnancy.

It should not be confused with false pregnancy, where the woman believes that she is truly pregnant. On that note, women have the option of using artificially supplied hormones to cause their bodies to effectively experience a false pregnancy, which would appear to be the truest form of simulated pregnancy yet discovered.

Women who wish to experience pregnancy to "look" pregnant, generally for social or psychological purposes, have the option of body suits and the like to wear under their clothes. It can be done by using pillows or pads, or light-weighing balls with a round shape to simulate a pregnant abdomen.

There are some men whom for reasons want to dramatize a simulated pregnancy, which is a subject of comedy and ridicule, but they could indicate a curiosity factor to do a simulated pregnancy, since males cannot get pregnant and to experience what many women have experienced.

"Empathy bellies" are a special body suit available by mail order to imitate a pregnant belly, along with enlarged "breasts" and its build will produce "fetal movement" as if the wearer felt the unborn baby "move". [http://www.empathybelly.org/home.html]