Landers, Wyoming Birth....

[luvmychicknkids]

I seriously think someone could not know. I have given birth to three little boys and not all pregnancies are that easy to feel. My first one hurt me...kicked so hard he left bruises and was only 1 lb 14 oz at birth (born at 25 weeks). I was in hard labor with him prior to having him c-section though and never felt a single contraction. My second barely moved. He was still and quiet through the entire pregnancy and had me scared to death thinking something must be wrong. He was my biggest at 6 lbs 13 oz. My last one was active but nothing like the first. So, if you had a combination of the quiet baby, the inability to feel contractions and continued to have periods (I did for the first 4 months with all of mine) I could see it. The weight gain was something I couldn't hide with mine though.

 

[Featherland]

I once knew a lady that didn't know she was pregnant until she gave birth. She was at a mall when her water broke and they called paramedics. Her husband thought she was dying. She had a funny body shape with a large stomach and was on medication that caused her body to feel numb.

A 15 year old girl I knew was having back pains and her mother thought she was having kidney problems because she had them in the past. It turns out she was almost 8 months pregnant. She was shocked because she had regular monthlies. She was long waisted. Her Mom told me after she found out she told her to lift her shirt. Her stomach was almost flat but her belly button was sticking out.

I gave birth to my middle child in 15 minutes. I was having small irregular pains and I told my husband I wanted to go to the hospital to be checked because my first child was born in 2 hours. At the hospital they told me I wasn't in labor and were going to send me home. Suddenly my water broke. They told me I would be in labor for 20 hours and everyone including my husband left the room to do the paper work. That baby was coming right then. I pressed the button for the nurse. She came and told me I was not giving birth then and left the room. I pressed the button again and this time she checked and what a frenzy trying to get the doctor. I really didn't have pain until then but that 15 minutes was REALLY PAINFUL.

So I can see this happening but the circumstances would be rare.

 

[Mesa]

How can you not know your pregnant? This just baffles me.

 

[debilorrah]

My SIL at a full term of 40 weeks looked only slightly bloated - and she is thin. Delivered two 9 lb babies and never once looked preggers.

 

[spook]

Well, PCOS has been around for as long as women have been obese. I for one can attest to why you wouldn't worry about having a monthly, I could go a year with no spotting or anything. Granted it was "normal" for me, and I needed to have hormonal treatments and later had Uterine cancer.
Eh, like I say, I have had some crazy ripping menstral cycles due to the build up of those cells.
Oh, and I think I heard thos screaming labor pains up here in Maine! We assumed the natives were restless!

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Nope. no natives just us chickens laying the world's biggest egg! And me like a moron has the tiny baby via the emergency exit and the big one au naturel...

One of my coworkers asked me if I was pregnant when I was only about ten weeks!

When I was preggers with number 1 I left work carrying a stack of binders and a computer over one shoulder and my briefcase over another. I slipped on the ice and down I went, on my back, stuck like a turtle!! The weight of what I was carrying and the awkward position and I was stuck!! The two bags pinned my shoulders down!

Oddly, I fell right in front of a factory that made - you guessed it - maternity clothes! A bunch of women came running out and helped me up. I'm sure strange things happen, and I know some women deliver and head back to the fields, but I was not one of them!