This is CRAZY!

[thinkofthesoldiers]

I call BS on all of this. Unless you are morbidly obese and/or mentally unstable (and this is backed up by what my OB said when I asked him about this), there is just no way you don't notice SOMETHING that might make you go "hmmmm, something is different here."

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I used to never believe these sort of things until it happened to someone I know. I saw the girl on Friday and there was no way in hell she looked pregnant. On Wednesday she showed up at our office with her baby. It was absolutely crazy.

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This is actually not that uncommon. Well, it's uncommon, but not extremely rare. We have a friend of the family who had this happen with her teenage daughter. The girl was a skinny cheerleader and wasn't showing.

I used to watch a show called I Didn't Know I was Pregnant on I think TLC and it fascinated me. I really don't understand how it happens sometimes that a person wouldn't show at all with a pregnancy when they aren't obese or even overweight, but it does happen.

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Jun 5, 2013 20:10:29 GMT -5 thinkofthesoldiers said:

I call BS on all of this. Unless you are morbidly obese and/or mentally unstable (and this is backed up by what my OB said when I asked him about this), there is just no way you don't notice SOMETHING that might make you go "hmmmm, something is different here."

But if you aren't showing at all, you might not think that much of a minor change.  Our friend's kid thought she had just gained 5 pounds from eating too much.  I don't know the details about her period, but I know that pregnant women can still have spotting that they think is a period.

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health.discovery.com/tv-shows/i-didnt-know-i-was-pregnant

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Jun 5, 2013 20:14:50 GMT -5 @godawgs said:

Jun 5, 2013 20:10:29 GMT -5 thinkofthesoldiers said:

I call BS on all of this. Unless you are morbidly obese and/or mentally unstable (and this is backed up by what my OB said when I asked him about this), there is just no way you don't notice SOMETHING that might make you go "hmmmm, something is different here."

But if you aren't showing at all, you might not think that much of a minor change.  Our friend's kid thought she had just gained 5 pounds from eating too much.  I don't know the details about her period, but I know that pregnant women can still have spotting that they think is a period.

Nope. I still don't buy it, especially for a teenager. Seems like denial when they are that young. I had two very different pregnancies, but I sure felt kicks even when they were in very different positions.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Jun 5, 2013 20:15:53 GMT -5 @godawgs said:

health.discovery.com/tv-shows/i-didnt-know-i-was-pregnant

This is what made me ask my OB. We were joking about it.

[oliviapope]

I know this happens a lot but I kind of always think it's bull. No symptoms of pregnancy, in 9 whole months?! Especially when you have had 2 before? I just don't buy it. 

[TrickyBob]

I think it can happen, simply because it happened to a girl I went to HS with. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't believe in it. 


But you have to think, this woman believed they couldn't have kids any longer, due to her husband getting snipped. Plus she was training for this race and her head was probably 1000% into that - which would mean she really didn't give the idea of pregnancy a thought. And that right there is how I believe some people miss all the signs. They are SO focused on something else that they miss all tiny signs that point towards "you're pregnant".

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Here's what's making me not believe it. If you are in so much pain that eventually they cal the ambulance for you, AND you've had kids before, wouldn't it possible occur to you that something was up even then? I really think she didn't want to be pregnant and was in denial about it all.

[VeryViolet]

I used to be terrified that this would happen to me. Lol. Not getting a period for 9 mos wouldn't concern me at all with my PCOS.

I really don't get how skinny women don't show at all though. And having been pregnant before and not noticing any symptoms is crazy.

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Jun 5, 2013 20:18:49 GMT -5 mofongo said:

After seeing her picture I believe it could have happened. I think they threw the 'aspiring half marathon' runner in there for dramatic affect. This actually happened to someone I know, not a friend of a friend of a friend but someone I know. The kid is 6 now.

Yeah. Just based on her picture, it appears she may have taken up running to lose weight or something then been one of those "gosh darn it, I ran two hours today and still am gaining weight people." I could totally see the exercise offsetting the weight gain from pregnancy. Though the missing periods, and how a woman who had already given birth did not recognize fetus movement, I do not know.

[birdistheword]

This happened to a girl I work with. She found out she was pregnant at 7 1/2 months, and in NO way looked it. She is a PE/health teacher, in very good shape and obviously aware of what happens when one is pregnant. I really do think when you have none of the obvious physical changes associated with pregnancy, and think there is no way you are pregnant, it might be easy to write off the symptoms you do have as something else. Who knows. I've never been pregnant.

[mbcdefg]

And besides, her husband had a vasectomy.

I can't help but wonder if there was some hanky-panky going on here and she was trying to hide it from her husband.

[pantsparty]

I don't know how someone isn't concerned by missing, oh, 9 or so periods in a row. I understand not everyone is like clockwork, but after the 5th one, don't you start to think, "Hmmm...haven't needed to pick up tampons in awhile..."

[Marle]

Jun 5, 2013 20:10:29 GMT -5 thinkofthesoldiers said:

I call BS on all of this. Unless you are morbidly obese and/or mentally unstable (and this is backed up by what my OB said when I asked him about this), there is just no way you don't notice SOMETHING that might make you go "hmmmm, something is different here."

Maybe she was afraid to admit she felt sick? She could have been afraid of many things. Including the fucking C and having to stop running.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

But what was her time?

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Jun 5, 2013 20:31:32 GMT -5 Marle said:

Jun 5, 2013 20:10:29 GMT -5 thinkofthesoldiers said:

I call BS on all of this. Unless you are morbidly obese and/or mentally unstable (and this is backed up by what my OB said when I asked him about this), there is just no way you don't notice SOMETHING that might make you go "hmmmm, something is different here."

Maybe she was afraid to admit she felt sick? She could have been afraid of many things. Including the fucking C and having to stop running.

The fucking C = cancer?

I suppose that could be it, but when you are already responsible for kids, you are kind of an asshole for not getting yourself checked out even if you are scared.

[TrickyBob]

Jun 5, 2013 20:35:58 GMT -5 thinkofthesoldiers said:

Jun 5, 2013 20:31:32 GMT -5 Marle said:

Maybe she was afraid to admit she felt sick? She could have been afraid of many things. Including the fucking C and having to stop running.

The fucking C = cancer?

I suppose that could be it, but when you are already responsible for kids, you are kind of an asshole for not getting yourself checked out even if you are scared.

I was assuming c = c-section because the healing process would slow down running. 

[TrickyBob]

Jun 5, 2013 20:49:06 GMT -5 Que? said:

Are you guys seeing a picture that I'm not seeing or are we judging from the shot of her face? That could be IV bloating.

Anyway, who knows. It is possible that this could be denial, like the reverse of whatever it is that convinces women they are pregnant when they're not.

I'm only seeing her face. I don't think you can really guess her size just by her face. 

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Jun 5, 2013 20:50:22 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Jun 5, 2013 20:28:03 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

I don't know how someone isn't concerned by missing, oh, 9 or so periods in a row. I understand not everyone is like clockwork, but after the 5th one, don't you start to think, "Hmmm...haven't needed to pick up tampons in awhile..."

My bff has gone a year without a period, she has PCOS.

You don't believe in Helen Keller, do you?

This is me. I don't have a period without medical intervention, unless it is a rare instance in which I bleed like I haven't had a period in a year, which, well, is usually the case.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Jun 5, 2013 21:03:44 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Jun 5, 2013 20:58:19 GMT -5 thinkofthesoldiers said:

This is me. I don't have a period without medical intervention, unless it is a rare instance in which I bleed like I haven't had a period in a year, which, well, is usually the case.

Sounds volcanic.

LMAO That's one way to put it!

[orangeblossom]

My little cousin was on the street moaning in pain one minute and two hours later she was holding a newborn. They claim that when she got to the hospital they did an ultrasound and didn't see anything, and her mother was like yes, her daughter isn't pregnant. Then it was like crap, what's wrong with my kid.

My little cousin was still having pain, so another nurse did the ultrasound and scanned more or her side/back and the baby was there. They said based on the positioning it would have been easy to dismiss the kicking.

Jury is still out on whether I totally believe it. In this case I absolutely think it could have been denial, since her older child was barely one.

[julez]

I will never, ever believe these stories, no matter how many times it happens to La-A or Oranjello's girlfriend. Especially when the women have other children. Nope. Not for one single minute. Bullshit.

[cleo29]

I am sure my MIL will mention this to us on Sunday. She is a doctor at a/the Duluth hospital.

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Jun 5, 2013 20:50:39 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

Jun 5, 2013 20:49:06 GMT -5 Que? said:

Are you guys seeing a picture that I'm not seeing or are we judging from the shot of her face? That could be IV bloating.

Anyway, who knows. It is possible that this could be denial, like the reverse of whatever it is that convinces women they are pregnant when they're not.

I'm only seeing her face. I don't think you can really guess her size just by her face. 

There's a full length picture on google images. She isn't morbidly obese or anything but if people are picturing a typical runner's body, no. She could absolutely have missed a baby if she was otherwise losing wright through diet and exercise.

[tdk2]

wow, that's just crazy! imagine adjusting to the idea of a 3rd like that..

[wise_rita]

Do people not drink? Ever? I would think these "I didn't know I was pregnant" types have a huge problem with FAS because they don't know to abstain from alcohol. Unless, of course, they're full of shit.

I would be suing the buffoon who who did the vasectomy!

[dirtyred]

A woman I worked with used to call bullshit on this sort of thing as well, saying "So much happens to your body that you can't NOT notice." Then she got pregnant with her second child.

She had bleeding every month around the time her period was due, she had no morning sickness this pregnancy, didn't gain much weight, and the baby almost never moved. After that, she could see how it was possible to  think that  you were  not pregnant. And my friend was overweight, so she didn't really look pregnant until about 37 weeks.

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Ok, the news has been making this chick out as training for the FULL grandma's marathon.

Now I'm not as impressed.