Story about women that didn't know they were pg

uklawgirl · May 2010

So I love to read the Daily Mail (I'll admit it) and they featured a story about women that had delivered babies and had no idea they were pregnant. Can you imagine? Apparently one in 600 births happen to women that weren't aware they were pregnant!

The story is here.

nurseJK · May 2010

I loved that show, I didn't know I was pg!

companion cube · May 2010

Can you imagine not knowing your were pregnant and reaching down and feeling a head coming out? That has got to be one of the scariest feelings ever.

KrisB755 · May 2010

but seriously...how can they not know???? C'mon ladies. I watched that show once - I didn't know I was pg - and it seriously disturbed me, yet at the same time, was like a train wreck that I couldn't stop watching.

uklawgirl · May 2010

I didn't know there was a show about this! (I don't have cable and don't watch TV)

Companion Cube- you're right- I cannot imagine feeling a baby coming out and not expecting it. I can imagine how you'd be in TOTAL shock.

Kris- I have no idea - I know that people do have spotting all the way through sometimes so they might think they were getting a period, but wouldn't you think you'd be able to feel the baby kick once it got old enough? Is that a feeling that's able to be misunderstood as something else?

hjk5000 · May 2010

I think those women are nuts. I get not knowing in your first trimester or so, because lots of women have no symptoms and they spot and think it's their period or whatever, but by the time you're ready to deliver you really didn't guess??? They've got to be crazy.

nurseJK · May 2010

uklawgirl:

I didn't know there was a show about this! (I don't have cable and don't watch TV)

Companion Cube- you're right- I cannot imagine feeling a baby coming out and not expecting it. I can imagine how you'd be in TOTAL shock.

Kris- I have no idea - I know that people do have spotting all the way through sometimes so they might think they were getting a period, but wouldn't you think you'd be able to feel the baby kick once it got old enough? Is that a feeling that's able to be misunderstood as something else?

I was so obsessed I totally DVR'ed this show. The experts said some babies are not very active and some women don't have any pg symptoms. Some of the women are on the pill for the whole time, some women were on depo-provera and got pg. I dunno. Still seems nuts to me. Especially the women who had prior children!!! I guess it's possible though.

nate2011 · May 2010

I too have seen this...I watched it last sat too & I was laying in bed, bloated, hurting feeling sick thinking how in the heck can these women not know??? hmmmmm

AppleMomma · May 2010

It really is crazy. Could you imagine the shock when you push out a baby though not knowing you were pg? I feel bad for the baby & the mother.

UrbanHippieMama · May 2010

uklawgirl:

I didn't know there was a show about this! (I don't have cable and don't watch TV)

Companion Cube- you're right- I cannot imagine feeling a baby coming out and not expecting it. I can imagine how you'd be in TOTAL shock.

Kris- I have no idea - I know that people do have spotting all the way through sometimes so they might think they were getting a period, but wouldn't you think you'd be able to feel the baby kick once it got old enough? Is that a feeling that's able to be misunderstood as something else?

One woman on the show said she thought it was gas. Also, when a woman has an anterior placenta, the baby kicks against the placenta and not the belly. I had one with DD and I didn't feel her move until around 21 weeks I think, and it was very subtle. Friends would tell me who their baby would wake them up at night they were so active, and I never got it!

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