Police in the Indonesian town of Cianjur, West Java are reportedly launching an investigation after a woman in the area who recently gave birth claims she became pregnant via a “gust of wind.” The 25-year-old named Siti Zainah, who now has a baby girl, insists she didn’t have sex and instead randomly found herself pregnant one day while sitting in her living room, according to Tribunnews.com.
- The wind just “entered her body” apparently. Talking to local news outlets, Zainah claims: “After afternoon prayers, I was lying face down on the floor when I suddenly felt wind enter my body through my vagina.” Fifteen minutes later, her stomach grew and shortly after, she gave birth at a local health clinic.
- Zainah became the subject of local ridicule. As you can probably imagine, locals weren’t impressed with Zainah’s version of events and are said to have made fun of the woman for her claim, especially given that she already has one child with her ex-husband, from whom she separated only four months prior to giving birth to her newborn daughter. “After checks, the mother and baby are healthy and the birth was normal. The baby’s gender is female and weighs 2.9 kilograms,” the head of the community clinic Eman Suleiman said, as reported by Mashable.
- Chances are, Zainah just didn’t know she was pregnant. Suleiman believes that Zainah had a “cryptic pregnancy” in which she didn’t realize she was going to give birth until she went into labor. This is the most reasonable and likely explanation. “We want to clear up the confusing news about the woman’s birth which many perceive to be unnatural,” sub-precinct chief Sumardi reportedly said. “We want to avoid this incident from creating rumors among the public.”
- It’s possible and even likely that Zainah could be trying to protect herself. If she happened to get pregnant out of wedlock, something that’s extremely frowned upon in her culture, chances are that she could be lying about how she became with child in order to try and avoid the stigma that comes along with it.
