How is it possible for a woman to not realize she's pregnant until they're in thier 2nd trimester?

Question

Very curious about that because you're body changes just enough for you to start wondering whats going on, right? I've heard stories where women have gone to the emergency room thinking they're horribly sick when they're really in labor. How in the world? Feel free to school me on this topic, thanks : 0

Answer 1

Some women, because of being either very under or over weight, do not get regular periods and may not get them at all. So they would not miss having one - the first sign you or I would look at as a sign of pregnancy. Not all women get sore breasts, not all women get nausea, very underweight women don't show their pregnancy until month 7 or 8, very overweight women would not be able to tell the difference between a little more weight gain and a blooming belly.

So yes, odd as it seems, some women simply do not know they are pregnant until very late in the pregnancy.

Answer 2

When I was 15 years old, I got pregnant. Now, understand that my family was very religious. I wasn't allowed to participate in any school activities, go to the movies,dances, or anything a normal kid does. Thatsummer, i got a babysitting job. This allowed me to have just enough freedom to do things that I obvioulsy didn't have any business doing. I knew i was pregnant when I was about 2 or 3 months. I never gained any weight until I was 8 months pregnant. I was in total denial. I was so terrified that I didn't know what to do. The doctors said that I literally denied the pregnancy in my mind so my body didn't progress in the pregnancy like it should have. So yes I can understand if someone doesn't know they are pregnant till the 2nd trimester. Everybody's situation is different. Also, my cousin got sick one time and my aunt took her to the doctor and they thought she had an appendix problem. The doc came out and told my aunt, congratulations...your'e a grand mother. No one knew. Now whether my cousin knew or not, I don't know. The mind can play powerful tricks on you if your under stress. Be thankful that you have nevr been in this situation. I'm now 37 yrs old and I have a son that is 18 months. When I got pregnant this time I definatley knew it right way!

Answer 3

I have no idea. Pregnancy with my my son I kept it hidden for a while, at least 5 months before anybody else knew, but after that I put on so much weight (of course I know every woman doesn't) but I also felt him kick like crazy all the time. Either these women have babies who just lay there the whole time and not move, which is not like or they think they've got gas or something else when they feel the kicking. I don't see how they could mistake this though because my son kicked so hard you could actually see my stomach move in the spot. They must just have a serious case of denial I guess.

Answer 4

Some people dont pay attention to the small cues your bady gives out. A lot of those people were over weight and claim they didn't see a change in that. Some people` like my aunt don't have periods and have been told that they cant have children, so they ignore those little things thinking maybe they made them happen hoping to be pregnant. NOt everyone gets the same symptoms or as strong. LIKE FREQuent urinantion, breat tenderness ect... those are the things most people link to pregnancy. So whenever someone has to pee a lot they instantly think i might be pregnant. and if these people have never been pregnant before they might just ignore these symptoms. i found out at 4 weeks each time, so i didnt ignore the symptoms.

Answer 5

Well, I didn't find out I was pregnant until 2 months had passed. It is possible. First of all, you don't really show until 4-5 months anyway. Secondly, if you have few or mild symptoms it's easy to write it off as the flu. Third, if you're not expecting to be pregnant you're not really looking for it. (I was on the birth control pill so I thought I had no reason to worry.) So, i think it is possible not to know until the 2nd trimester. Unfortunately we don't have a buzzer that goes off as soon as an egg is fertilized.

As for women that go into labor and don't know you're pregnant...that I can't explain, you'd think you'd realize you missed your period :)

Answer 6

Some women have irregular periods and may have thought it was normal that they weren't having thier periods and some people can still get their period throughout their entire pregnancy. I am unsure how they wouldn't know throughout the 9 months of a baby forming inside of you but maybe they just aren't aware of their body or are in denial and just didn't want to tell anybody or are overweight so they just really did not notice.

Answer 7

Well if your taking Birth Control Pills or any other kinds that makes your periods either stop coming or a mandatory period that is one way..Since if you get pregnant on the pill it forces your period to come every month so you can get pregnant and not even know it...And others well if your a heavier person it's easy if you don't get any symptoms at all and if you have irregular periods...And also some women have there period through out the entire pregnancy, my sister had her period until her 5th month pregnant..SO it really all depends on the situation and symptoms and all...

Answer 8

I was 8 almost 9 weeks with my first before I found out. I kept getting negative pregnancy tests and I didn't have any symptoms. I only threw up total maybe 6 times. Nothing seemed unusual. I blamed my no period on stress.

Finally test #4 came back positive.

Now with this pregnancy it's different, I knew right away, i think it's mommy's intuition and I had been through it before. Also, I got a positive test at 5 weeks.

Answer 9

Some women have irregular periods, and some women continue to get periods while pregnant.

Also all pregnancy symptoms are pretty vague, until the baby starts kicking. And even then if you have an anterior placenta that can be mistaken for something else fairly far into the pregnancy.

Answer 10

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