Ok, does anyone believe those "I didn't realize I was pregnant" stories?

Re: Ok, does anyone believe those "I didn't realize I was pregnant" stories?

• aeg51107

  October 2009

  I've wondered that too. I also can understand not feeling the baby kick/move depending on the shape or placement of the uterus or whatever, but there was this one mom who actually DID feel kicking inside and she and her DH joked about "the alien inside her." Wouldn't you get that checked out!?

   

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• sadielove member

  October 2009

  They're in denial.

  

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• sawyer2 member

  October 2009

  i only have belived only one story on there and thats still iffy

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• jenny1980 member

  October 2009

  The only ones that seemed plausible involved really early delivery.

  Did you see the one where the woman had the baby in the bathroom at the camp ground and just let her drop on the cement floor? Poor thing was so lucky she survived!

   

  Lucy, 12/27/2009
  

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• Daisy582 member

  October 2009

  You can believe anything you tell yourself if you work at it hard enough....look at patholgical liars, they honestly think that they are telling people the truth most of the time.

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• anakin

  October 2009

  My Uncle was an ER doctor until he retired recently.  He said that he did on several occasions deliver babies for women who came in with "severe stomach cramps".   Apparently it is possible, but he said that most of these women were very overweight.  And that the extreme extra weight would sort of explain the fact that they didn't know.  They wouldn't show, their periods were usually irregular, and the kicking would be mistaken for gas/indegestion.

  But when I see the show and these women who are healthy weights and don't know they are pg, I really just don't believe it.  It seems impossible to me.
  

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• Temp6313048411121614 member

  October 2009

  With my first pg, if I didn't have a huge belly, I wouldn't have necessarily known.  DS moved VERY little.  I had a friend in HS that didn't know she was pg until she was 6m.  She was a bigger girl, and spotted through most of her pg (so she thought she was getting her period). 
  

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• katmurph

  October 2009

  Ha, no.. that show annoys the heck out of me.

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• anhella

  October 2009

  anakin:

  My Uncle was an ER doctor until he retired recently.  He said that he did on several occasions deliver babies for women who came in with "severe stomach cramps".   Apparently it is possible, but he said that most of these women were very overweight.  And that the extreme extra weight would sort of explain the fact that they didn't know.  They wouldn't show, their periods were usually irregular, and the kicking would be mistaken for gas/indegestion.

  But when I see the show and these women who are healthy weights and don't know they are pg, I really just don't believe it.  It seems impossible to me.
  

  I am pretty overweight and the baby moving and kicking feels nothing like indigestion to me. If I didn't know I was pregnant I would think something was very wrong with me.
  

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• jessicaclare member

  October 2009

  There was one girl on there that I went to high school with. Having met her, I totally believe she didn't know. I don't think it was denial, I think it was pure idiocy and airheadedness.
  

  
  Annelise 3.22.2007 Norah 10.24.2009 Amelia 8.7.2011

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• dionnemd10 member

  October 2009

  i have a friend who was almost 5.5 months along before she knew.  she had her period straight through and i think either went in for her annual or for something else and bam-there was baby!   she was very surprised!!!!!!!   i am pretty sure she had been on bc too.

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• jdouglas84 member

  October 2009

  I think some people may just be that clueless and are not paying attention to the signs that their body is having. The stories that get me are the women who have already had children, how do they not know what is going on with their body?
  

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• mcgee member

  October 2009

  I think for most of those women, it's a combination of denial and a complete and utter lack of awareness about how their bodies work and how birth control should be used.

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  Meredith, 6-1-06 and Alex, 11-5-09

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• nmc29

  October 2009

  My friend's sister didn't know she was pregnant until she delivered.  I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen her all through the pregnancy.   She NEVER looked any different.  She had always had issues with her periods and it turned out she had an anterior placenta and the baby was more in her back and she never felt him move.  She's since had another baby and with that one she was noticeably pregnant and felt her moving and everything.  I guess her son was just a quiet baby.
  

  I don't think it happens often enough to make a TV show out of it, I think MOST of the stories are denial....but it CAN happen.
  

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• Jessalicious01 member

  October 2009

  I think in some cases of morbidly obese women and anterior placenta's it's possible.
  

  Miscarriage/D&E 10w6d 10/3/14 (baby's heart stopped beating)

  
  

  Ectopic Pregnancy discovered @ 10 weeks 5/6/14 (Lost right tube and ovary)

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

   
  

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