Male Pregnancy
Male pregnancy refers to the incubation of one or more embryos or fetuses by the male of any species. Almost all pregnancies in the animal kingdom are carried by female organisms. In all heterogamous species, the males produce the spermatozoa and rarely, if ever, host the zygote.
Foreplay
First, to make his body receptive to a pregnancy, the man would need to be injected with female hormones. These would be the same female hormones that infertility doctors administer to postmenopausal women who use donated eggs. The Urban Legend debunking site Snopes warns that “The child would have to be male, though, or else the necessary hormone injections would effectively castrate the male host.”
A Caesarian section will be required in order that frees the man’s little bundle of joy from the limits of his abdominal cavity and this operation will be very dangerous for any man, with higher risks of serious internal hemorrhages and infections. The placenta will have to be left inside the man’s abdomen to overcome the possibilities of damaging internal organs. This will lead to a massive infection and as the man’s abdomen, unlike a woman’s womb, is not considerably suited for pregnancy.
Once the man would change the chemistry of his body into a more feminine style, he would need to be infused by means of in vitro fertilization and after the embryo would have been implanted in the man’s abdomen using laparoscopic technique, scientists guess it would attach itself to the omentum, a fatty, blood rich tissue situated just beside the intestines and this would occur just like a woman having ectopic pregnancy, wherein the embryo would attach within the fallopian tubes.
Nevertheless, ectopic pregnancy generally is aborted as soon as it is diagnosed, since it has many dangers to pose to the mother and the unlikeliness of the fetus being brought to term. The real problem in a male pregnancy of any type is not its plausibleness, but if the man will survive it. In women, as said earlier, ectopic pregnancy is generally removed as soon as possible or else the fetus would also be in danger of aftermaths due to that would be deprived of the protection of a uterus in the woman but here, it would be difficult for a man to bear it.
A substitute to simple induction of an ectopic pregnancy is the technique of womb transplanting from a donor, or an artificial one. The first uterine transplant was done in Saudi Arabia in the year of 2000, from one woman to another and this advance drew attention about the possibility of a male getting a womb transplant, and bearing a child from that transplanted womb. The thing to be noted here is womb transplants to males have been successfully executed in animals and so no wonder, in coming years, you find your mother in your father!
