Does anyone know any amazing stories about how women never knew they were pregnant or that they went on their full term pregnancy and never knew it? Is there any websites or anywhere I could find them?
2006-11-28 19:23:24 · 11 answers · asked by S 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
I used to belive it was not possible untill my friend's mother told me "its a girl" one night.
see my friend gained weight after having her son "first child" and worked like hell to loss it all. she lost a lot of weight and then started gaining again. thing is she moved outta state. well throughout her second pregnancy she thought she was just gaining her weight back. she never really had morning sickness "just thought oit was the flu the very few times she was sick" and she did have her period.
well... she went to the doctor for a usual check up and thats when the doctor told her she was pregnant. they did an ultra sound and the doctor said she was at LEAST 8 1/2 months... well make a long story short...... few days later she went into labor and her daughter was born
2006-11-28 19:30:19 · answer #1 · answered by Kittie_Nash 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not totally 9 months. Mind you this is a small high school of about 400. But when I was in high school a VERY athletic girl (about 125-130 lbs and 5'6") was pregnant. She continued to have periods. When she was about 6 months pregnant she gained 5 lbs. She was worried about getting fat and began to run at least 3 miles at the track everyday after school. Kept up with all her sports and activities. At about 9 months she started having tremendous back pains (found out the baby was on her spine). Her mom took her to the doctor and doctor announced she was pregnant. She denied it to be true because she was still cycling. A sonogram showed she was just about full term is not already. 2 weeks later she delivered the baby. She got nothing more than just a golf ball sized belly and after the baby lost so much weight (12 lbs if I remember right) (baby and placenta) she was not able to play sports for a whole season. No one would have EVER guessed if she didnt say. Some women naturally have a tummy with a lil curve and that is all it looked like. I don't know HOW she didnt feel the baby, but even after she knew she was pregnant she said she never felt the baby.
I myself went 4 months before I found out because of irregular pregnancy. I was throwing up all the time but I was told I had a series of viruses and infections. Later on found out it was just a UTI..
2006-11-29 03:53:48 · answer #2 · answered by Summer H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of a woman carrying the baby full-term and not knowing that she was pregnant...
But I do know that my mom was six and a half months pregnant with my brother before she realized she was pregnant. She didn't have morning sicknes or anything like that.
She was unaware of her pregnancy because her period was so infrequent. She would go months at a time without having one, and just thought that everything was normal.
It's esepcially easy to be pregnant and not know it if you don't experience morning sickness, have infrequent periods, and are a little on the chubby side. Chubby women don't show as quickly as a skinny woman would.
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There is an entire thread dedicated to this topic though. There was an article in a magazine a few years back about a girl who didn't know she was pregnant until she gave birth because she spotted her entire pregnancy and thought that she was just having a light period...
http://www.justmommies.com/boards/index.php?showtopic=46648
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There is also the following article of another woman having the same problem.
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Woman has baby, didn't know she was pregnant.
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Amanda Brisendine attributed the 30 pounds she gained in the past year to an abandoned smoking habit and rich food. So when she went to the hospital with sharp stomach pain, she wasn't expecting to leave with a newborn son.
"I don't know how I didn't know. I just didn't know," Brisendine said Tuesday from her bed at Overlake Medical Center's Birthing Center, where she delivered Alexander Joseph Britt by Caesarean section.
Doctors agree her case is not rare.
George Macones, chairman of the OB/GYN department at Washington University in St. Louis, said he's seen about a dozen cases in his nearly 20-year career.
The pregnancy isn't always obvious when a woman is overweight, or a woman will have spotting or bleeding during the pregnancy and mistake it for menstruation, said Macones, who specializes in high-risk pregnancies.
The 26-year-old Renton woman went to Group Health Cooperative's Eastside campus last Saturday after experiencing several days of abdominal pain so intense that she called in sick from work.
Doctors examined her and performed a pregnancy test that showed positive - she was nine months pregnant.
"I was so shocked. I was nauseous," said Brisendine, whose boyfriend Jason Britt didn't believe her at first.
"I thought she was lying," said Britt, 33.
Already mother to a 14-month-old daughter, Melodies, Brisendine said she didn't experience typical pregnancy symptoms, like a missed menstruation, morning sickness, fatigue or food cravings. "Everything was normal as far as I knew," she said.
Ultrasounds showed low amniotic fluid in the placenta and the baby wasn't moving properly, Brisendine's doctor, Danica Bloomquist, said.
"From our assessment, the baby wasn't doing well in utero," Bloomquist said. "He needed to come out."
After an emergency C-section Sunday, Brisendine delivered 7-pound, 5-ounce Alexander.
"We're in for a really, really big adventure," Brisendine said.
2006-11-29 03:24:44 · answer #3 · answered by =] -- * 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I went to HS with a girl who was 8 month preg before her parents found out. She was tall and skinny but the way she carried, she didn't start to really show till the 8th month.
I was 4 months at one time due to irregular periods.
I think it is possible to happen, especially in girls/women who may not have any info about being pregnant.
2006-11-29 03:34:17 · answer #4 · answered by onecharliecat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there was that story about a model (not a major model, more like a low key one in the UK a few years back) anyway, she literally didnt know she was preg until she gave birth in her parents shed (she had even done a bikini shoot a week or so before or something CRAZY like that). then she left the baby in the shed to die but it lived and her mom found it and there was a court case or something. It was s few years back - maybe even 5 or 6.
2006-11-29 03:31:07 · answer #5 · answered by supagrrrl84 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is eay for people who have never experienced not knowing they were pregnant sit here ad say it is impossible........
There are some stories on this page
http://health.msn.com/pregnancykids/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100148059
Although I didn't go 9 months w/o knowing i was pregnant; I did have my period the 1st 4 months of my 1st pregnancy.
2006-11-29 04:29:13 · answer #6 · answered by mystique_dragon4 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WOW!!! Good Luck and congratutlaions, sorry i don't have any answers for you. All i know is that i was watching Discovery Health and one women was in the same boat. She thought that she was having cramps so she went to the bathroom and came out with a baby. Good Luck
2006-11-29 03:26:25 · answer #7 · answered by tonya89031 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting isn't it...I would consider myself a lucky woman if that were to happen!
Oprah did a show on this once- It was very amazing. I guess it happens to some women! One woman on the show went to the emergency for stomach pains and they told her "your crowning"...and shes saying "??? what!?"
2006-11-29 04:36:45 · answer #8 · answered by paradox is interesting 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
how cant that ooh........(she should know by looking her stomach!)
2006-11-29 03:33:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not possible
2006-11-29 03:25:34 · answer #10 · answered by Tannu 4 · 0⤊ 6⤋