Woman unexpectedly gives birth

[notthemama]

Thought I'd share this finding:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15526279/

[Morgan]

Those stories always crack me up! They're so crazy! I had a friend who was quite overweight, and she was trying to be healthier. She went to the doctor because she'd had swollen ankles for a few months. It turned out she was 8 months pregnant. Her periods had always been irregular, so she hadn't noticed anything. At least she had a month to prepare! I wonder what would have happened if she hadn't had swollen ankles.
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[jess152]

I have such a hard time believing stories like this!!! Right now I'm at 36 weeks and this kid is head-butting my bladder, punching the inside of my pelvis and kicking me in the ribs! It's like a non-stop party in there, but like no indigestion or upset stomach I've ever had before. How could you mistake a baby's movements for anything else!? Unreal!

[Katrin]

A classmate of my sister's had been very sick for a while and lost so much weight her periods stopped. She eventually recovered and started gaining the weight back, thought it strange that her period hadn't started again but figured she was just still out of whack from the illness.

She finally went to the doctor because she started having a strange sensation of "something moving around" inside and couldn't figure out what was going on. It turned out she was 7 months pregnant.

Of course, she was never a very bright girl to begin with.

[xuli]

My sister had a friend in high school who was an athlete and never got very regular periods. She went to the hospital one day with severe stomach pains and came home with a baby. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't known her; she never really showed, just kind of gained weight all over. And her baby was several months premature.

I think the very (very very) inadequate sex education at my high school was largely to blame for this one though.
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[WorkAndPlay]

Someone in my family got pregnant and didn't find out until six months later. She never told her parents, and just showed up with a baby one day. That's twelve years ago now.
The kid's awesome, and her mom is really great. It's a funny story now, but I can remember my aunt and uncle not being very amused at the time.
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[notthemama]

My BF found out she was pregnant with her son when she was 6 months along. That was 11 years ago. She says when she looks back on it, she thinks she did know but since she had only had sex ONCE ever and was only 19 years old, she was in denial that it was true.

[caropop]

My sister knew she was pregnant with her second son, but she had no idea that she was pretty much in labor when that happened.

It was about 6 weeks early and she was at work one day and felt "weird" in the belly. Things were rumbling around and something was kind of off ( I don't remember exactly what she said she felt like), but it wasn't yet anything like real contractions (keeping mind that she'd already given birth once, though that one was induced). So she called her doctor who told her to come over on her lunch break for a quick check up. Turns out she was something like 8cm dilated and totally about to have the baby, she was sent right to the hospital and Mitchell was born only two or three hours later.
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[ladyjane]

I think some women are less in tune with their bodies than others - not meant to be a judgement or anything when I say that. I think some women feel pregnancy symptoms straightaway, sort of like when they know they have a cold, a stomach flu, a broken bone, etc.

I think the tricky thing is that each kid can be different, too - right down to the labor.

I think it also helps to have a really "earthy" family to openly discuss bodily functions with. My mom informs me that giving birth was like BM'ing a basketball to her. (And she has a high threshold for pain.)

I think if you can't talk about sex and pregnancy to people, I really feel that it's easy to kind of doop-de-doo and go through life and totally miss the symptoms of early pregnancy.
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[Martita]

Also, women who are significantly overweight tend to feel baby movements later...and some babies just aren't somersaulters!
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[Katrin]

An old friend of mine, many years ago, kind of went off the deep end...started dating a woman (until then she'd always been adamantly straight), and the two of them went missing for a couple of months. I was visiting her one day after she came back and she said casually, "Y'know, this is great - I haven't had my period for, like, four or five months now." I asked her if she wasn't a bit worried about that, and she was all like, "Worried? Of course not. Why should I be?"

She finally admitted to herself and everyone that yes, she was pregnant (it must have happened right before she took up with a woman). She had it all planned out - she and her gay male roommate, neither of whom had a steady job, were going to raise the baby together.

She ended up having a miscarriage when she was quite far along (6 months or more, I think) - likely brought on by the copious amounts of drugs she'd been doing. If I'd thought she'd gone off the deep end before, I was mistaken - she was never the same after that. I don't know if she just lost herself in more drugs or what; she was no longer the person I knew. I miss her a lot.

[browneyedgirl]

When I was in the 10th grade this chick in my class was absent for a few days in a row...something was finally said aloud in class about how she'd had a baby.

Total shock to everyone. Supposedly to her mother too. I think there was even talk about how she didn't know, but you know how small towns are.

She wasn't really what I would consider heavy, but she sure didn't look pregnant...much less about to have a baby.

Just odd.

BUT.

I've been on Depo on and off for years which = wacked out, non existent period. I could easily (if I was active) end up pregnant and not know for a while. At least based on the missing period angle..
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[tiggycat]

One of my friends found out she was pregnant six months along. She went to the dr. because she felt the babe's movements. We were shocked! So was she! She has pcos and has sporadic periods. Also, she has blood sugar instability problems, so the sickness of pregnancy seemed an awful lot like what she dealt with already. And she is heavy, so the weight thing was not really telling-- she didn't gain that much weight, and it didn't seem to be so obvious visually. Before this, I, too, was crazy skeptical of these stories!