The Christmas holiday season awakened childbirth fantasies in an unmarried college student. Her period started three weeks late in mid-December, the day after she had impulsively purchased a puppy. During these weeks the patient had felt nauseated and distended and confessed a wish to be pregnant; she treated the puppy with tender, maternal concern, comparing her behavior with her own treatment as a child. Childhood daydreams of being impregnated by God along with memories of her father at Christmas served to support her underlying fantasy of bearing her father's child.