How Does This Happen?

iamjoesgurl · July 2011

http://news.yahoo.com/video/cincinnatiwlwt-18191085/woman-unexpectedly-gives-birth-26096719.html

I just don't understand how someone could be pregnant for 9 months and never know. I know that there is a TV show about this but I've never watched.

Has anyone ever known anyone who didn't know they were pregnant until they were well into their pregnancy?

Special2011 · July 2011

I've never been pregnant, but most women tell me there's no way someone wouldn't know. But then maybe if her periods weren't regular, she didn't gain much weight and she wasn't sick, maaaaabyyyee? I have no idea.

kalizoomba · July 2011

One of my mom's friend's sister, Mary, had a baby. She knew she was pregnant with him... then when he was about 2, she had twins. She didn't know she was even pregnant. I didn't understand it either. No one could tell she was pregnant, but she was a big overweight. I did watch the show a few times and i think it's plausible. I don't know though.

I actually think that they had talked to Mary about being on the show, but she declined.

AshNoel8 · July 2011

That's crazy! I have seen that show too. It does seem quite unlikely to me that someone would have no clue they're pregnant, but I've never been pregnant, so I don't know.

mrandmrsbrist · July 2011

That always blows my mind. How can you be that unaware of your body?!

DramaGeek · July 2011

My SIL was 26 weeks when they found out she was pregnant. Basically, it was a perfect storm that allowed her to not know. She had gained 5 pounds or so, but we all figured it was because she'd recently moved in with her then-bf and he cooks a lot more than she does, so she was eating more. She nver had any kind of morning/afternoon/evening sickness, and the placenta was sitting between baby and uterine wall so when he was kicking she couldn't feel it. When H told me she was 6 months pregnant I said, "No she's not, I just had lunch with her last week!"

ETA - as far as periods, she's never been regular and she had enough spotting that she didn't notice that her period was missing.

sessionswedding · July 2011

My mom was four and a half months pregnant with one of my brothers before she knew she was pregnant. It's a long story.

My mom had me on April 23, 1988. She wanted to breast feed, but wanted HBC. I was a surprise as it was, and she and my dad were newlyweds, they certainly couldn't afford TWO babies! So her doctor put her on the mini-pill (a piece of crap HBC that has to be taken within a 15 minute window of the same time every day). When I was 6 weeks old, my mom got an infection or cold or something, and got put on antibiotics. No one told her that taking antibiotics makes HBC less effective, ESPECIALLY if you're on the mini-pill. This was the 80s. They didn't know everything then that we know now. While my mom was on the antibiotics, she got pregnant with my brother. But she didn't know it.

1. HBC causes you to have what is called a "pill period." It's not a real period and does not involve ovulation. The mini-pill is so mild, it can apparently cause these periods in a pregnant woman (i.e. my mom) without harming the baby (i.e. my brother). My mom never stopped having periods until she stopped taking this pill while pregnant.

2. She didn't gain weight (and in fact lost weight) because she had just given birth about 6 weeks prior. Have you ever seen a woman who JUST gave birth, like, the other day? Did she still look kinda pregnant? Yeah. My mom just thought that baby weight was really stubborn. She gained like 65 pounds when she was pregnant with me. I think she actually lost 5 with my brother.

3. Her morning sickness was masked by whatever it was they gave her the antibiotics for. She just thought she was still sick. And her fatigue was masked by, well, ME! Having a newborn puts a cramp in your sleeping schedule.

After all of that, the way that my mom finally realized that she was pregnant, was when she felt my brother move. She said it felt like he rubbed his fist across the front of her uterus. And it scared the ever-loving crap out of her. My brother was born on April 10, 1989.

jessiegirl61610 · July 2011

One of my friend's mother didn't know she was pregnant with her...but it was because she was a heavy cocaine user so didn't really gain hardly any weight and since she was a drug user she hardly ever got her periods. (thank God her mom's not a druggie anymore though!)

mrandmrsbrist · July 2011

Sessions and Drama, I am mind blown right now...mind freakin' blown.

drama1308 · July 2011

This thread is crazy!! I've watched that show a few times and it freaks me out a lot. I'm scared I "might not know I am pregnant" and I'll be disappointed because I'll feel like I missed out of a part of being pregnant.

and sessions yoru story is CRAZY!

ochemjenn · July 2011

I was going to say I don't understand how someone wouldn't know, but after reading sesssions's post, it doesn't sound so implausible.

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