She subsequently became pregnant, but she seemed to feel very sick at the time, and "Eiga monogatari" (a Tale of Flowering Fortunes) introduces an episode that she often told her husband about, 'I have a prophecy.'
続いて懐妊するが、この時は体調がひどく悪かったようで「まろは悪き心地するなむ」と夫に常々話していたと言うことが『栄華物語』で紹介されている。