10 Warning Signs Of Someone Trying To Baby-Trap You

It happens to both women and men. It’s time to talk about reproductive coercion and learn the warning signs.

Ossiana Tepfenhart
7 min readJan 5, 2022

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Let’s start this article with a fucked-up story about a heroin addicted woman who tried a fucked up baby trap scheme. My guyfriend dated her. She kept talking about getting married, having a family, and also going into the suburbs for the “nice life.”

He was all about it — despite both of them being heroin addicts.

One day, she came to him, eyes aglow with joy. She then announced that she was pregnant. He got ready to get a new job, stopped doing dope, and that’s when the problems started.

Things stopped adding up, and started getting weird.

She started to drink while pregnant. And smoke. And then she did pills. Eventually, someone called CPS and she was investigated. As it turns out, she was not pregnant.

To her credit, she kept up the facade for 11 months until people collectively realized that no human gives birth after a year of gestation with no bump. (I never said all my friends were smart. It took some of them a while.)

I’m not going to lie, she had all of us going for at least two months. As it turns out, some of her…

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Ossiana Tepfenhart

I’m a weirdo who loves to write. Deal with it. Available for hire. Instagram @ossiana.makes.content