I didn't know I was Pregnant

phattiepatty

You ever sit there, have a gas bubble in your gut and wonder, shoot, could that have been a kick? That show has made me certifiably crazy.

pinuplove

:laugh: My baby factory was closed for good 8 years ago and I still feel phantom kicks!

kinkyslinky16

I still feel those pseudo kicks too LOL... I am on my placebo week of birth control right now and then we are going to try to get pregnant (so keep us in your thoughts! lol).. But ever since my son was born, every little twitch reminds me of him kicking... Glad to hear I'm not alone

CarolinaGirlinVA

I go through periods when I am sick to my stomach every morning, everything makes me gag, my sense of smell is sensitive and I am exhausted. I had a hysterectomy 4 years ago and still the first thing to cross my mind is "pregnant?" Of course I have 4 kids so maybe it is more a habit than anything...:laugh:

Reckabek

I get those things that feel like kicks too. So wierd....

phattiepatty

Well i wanna have a child so bad but my OBGYN, husband and I all agree I need to get my health better. And being so overweight isn't okay. My BP was an issue, I had preeclampsia, was on bed rest. All sortsof stuff. Maybe it wishful thinking. But man sometimes I will sit there and just feel a twinge and be like OMG what if I am like 7 months pregnant and don't even know it!?!?!??! But then again, Aunt Flow always rears her ugly lil head

robinso5

I go through periods when I am sick to my stomach every morning, everything makes me gag, my sense of smell is sensitive and I am exhausted. I had a hysterectomy 4 years ago and still the first thing to cross my mind is "pregnant?" Of course I have 4 kids so maybe it is more a habit than anything...:laugh:

I have those morning sickness periods also but mine is acid reflux! Get u some pepcid and take one when u feel it coming on and it will work wonders i promise

Fit4_Life

I so miss that feeling... :sad:
I'd do it over again..and again..and again..lol.

PS. Labor was only 45 minutes..so yeah..I'd go through it again.. :bigsmile:

monicamk1975

I used to freak out watching that show, until I was pregnant and 250 pounds. I am way more skeptical since I went through it... there are so many many signs... how do you not see the movement in your stomach? I had a really rough pregnancy though, so maybe some people are just luckier and feel nothing....

haaaleyx

That show has made me so paranoid. If I'm having a stomach ache or cramps one day, i'm just like "omg I must be going into labor". hahaha.

CarolinaGirlinVA

I go through periods when I am sick to my stomach every morning, everything makes me gag, my sense of smell is sensitive and I am exhausted. I had a hysterectomy 4 years ago and still the first thing to cross my mind is "pregnant?" Of course I have 4 kids so maybe it is more a habit than anything...:laugh:

I have those morning sickness periods also but mine is acid reflux! Get u some pepcid and take one when u feel it coming on and it will work wonders i promise

I will try that! Since it doesn't burn I never even considered acid reflux. Thanks!

I so miss that feeling...
I'd do it over again..and again..and again..lol.

PS. Labor was only 45 minutes..so yeah..I'd go through it again..

My labors definitely got easier with each baby. My first was 44 1/2 hours of hard labor on pitocin. I pushed 3 1/2 of those hours and at one point told the doctor to cut him out of me! My last labor was a breeze, pitocin started at 2, baby was out by 3:42. It helped the epidural actually worked with the last one!

MissVCI

That show stirs up so many emotions in me.


First shock and confusion (Now I've never been pregnant and birth control regulates my period, so i find it highly unlikely that I will ever be in that situation, but i do freak out if I could be that unaware of my body) I'm always like WTF in the episodes. (especially the ones who already had kids)

Then anger ( I had a friend who was trying to get pregnant and miscarried 3 times in 7 months, she was doing everything in her power to have a healthy pregnancy and it was heartache to watch her go through that, but here are these people who don't do anything in prenatal care and have perfectly healthy babies, so yeah it angers me.

then i'm just dumbfounded by the whole ordeal.
Yet whenever i see it's on in marathon form, i'm glued to the tv.

christine24t

I had a teacher who said her mother didn't know she was pregnant until she gave birth so it does happen in real life!!

catshark209

I just can't see how someone can't know they are pregnant! I mean, the kicks, the outline of their feet on one's belly ( very horror-movie like), the leaking milk....I just don't get it.
But yeah I was nauseated and smell-sensitive last week (PMS) and it felt like the first weeks of pregnancy...I knew I wasn't, but the thought was still there haha.
I had a 45 minute labor too...and I would never eeevvverr eeeeevvvvver do it again! No way no how. They gave me a damn enema...an enema!! Right in the middle of it all I had to get up and sit on the toilet and I was so scared my son would come out into all that!!! In the effing toilet!

jenj1313

Wow... I'm always amazed by that show, but it obviously doesn't effect me like some others!
I guess we're drawn in to what we relate to... I get glued to the TV whenever Hoarders comes on... I have always feared that my dad and step-mom will end up living like that.
At any rate, I hope you continue to make great strides with your weight... the health issues will get better too... and are able to move on with your dreams to expand your family :-)

Good luck!

CuteAndCurvy83

LOL I know I'm pregnant, but I can now fully understand how the women didn't know to a point. I mean now at 35 weeks the kicks and rolls are definitely not something I would see or feel if I wasn't pregnant, but I never had morning sickness and had times when I'd go a couple months without a period, so not seeing it for 9 months I'd just chalk up to my dieting and everything else..I never understood before how someone could not know, but I can totally see it now.

Maggie821

I think at some point - you know (and i'm not talking bout delivery!!) Congrats on your pregnancy - I'm past that stage of my life and am looking forward to the possibility of grandchildren (will know more tomorrow!)

I loved being pregnant with my 3 children - each pregnancy was different as was each delivery (and each child has their own personality, for sure!!). It's truly one of the best experiences in this lifetime!

psychopiglet

That show has made me so paranoid. If I'm having a stomach ache or cramps one day, i'm just like "omg I must be going into labor". hahaha.

Me too!

HWeatherholt

I know someone who didn't know. I'm not sure how she didn't know, a bunch of people suspected and even asked her which made her quite mad. And she swears she didn't know, despite going to at least one doctor for other things (symptoms) and what is even funnier her father is a doctor.

QueenHanifa

I just can't see how someone can't know they are pregnant! I mean, the kicks, the outline of their feet on one's belly ( very horror-movie like), the leaking milk....I just don't get it.
But yeah I was nauseated and smell-sensitive last week (PMS) and it felt like the first weeks of pregnancy...I knew I wasn't, but the thought was still there haha.
I had a 45 minute labor too...and I would never eeevvverr eeeeevvvvver do it again! No way no how. They gave me a damn enema...an enema!! Right in the middle of it all I had to get up and sit on the toilet and I was so scared my son would come out into all that!!! In the effing toilet!

Very possible.I carried my daughter(my 3rd child) full term,worked and even went horseback riding the day she was delivered and didn't know I was pregant,She weigh 6 lbs7 oz. .I didn't gain any weight ,was sick either.But I only weight 100 lbs back then.

CarolinaGirlinVA

My mom found out she was pregnant with me when she was 5.5 months. My grandmother told her she looked pg and urged her to go to the doctor. Since my mom had 8 miscarriages before me, she didn't believe she was. She thought she gained weight over the holidays and her and my biological father had been separated for a few months. Once she went to the doctor she hit the point in her pregnancy where she seemed to pop overnight. No doubt at that point!

I also find it frustrating to watch sometimes because I have had 4 miscarriages, a delivery at 18 weeks (she was stillborn, my only girl), and then my 3 boys. I also get SO angry when I hear about newborns being abandoned or babies who suffer from child abuse. In our area we have had quite a few infants killed by their own parents lately. I would give anything to have my daughter, how can they do that to their own child?

Yanicka1

I just can't see how someone can't know they are pregnant! I mean, the kicks, the outline of their feet on one's belly ( very horror-movie like), the leaking milk....I just don't get it.
But yeah I was nauseated and smell-sensitive last week (PMS) and it felt like the first weeks of pregnancy...I knew I wasn't, but the thought was still there haha.
I had a 45 minute labor too...and I would never eeevvverr eeeeevvvvver do it again! No way no how. They gave me a damn enema...an enema!! Right in the middle of it all I had to get up and sit on the toilet and I was so scared my son would come out into all that!!! In the effing toilet!

My last delivery from the time i was 3cm to delivery of the placenta.......6 minutes!!!! I kid you not i have the dr report to prove it lol. I always knew before even AF being late so i really wonder how some women can be so unaware of what is going on in their bodies.

MissFit0101

Never seen the show but I still feel phantom kicks sometimes.

nikkilou1978

There is no way I could go 9 months and not have some suspicion that I was pregnant. Not to mention the fact that my belly gets HUGE!

ETA. I still get phantom kicks too. Such a weird feeling.

kinkyslinky16

I didn't really have any symptoms with my first pregnancy either other than really sore nipples.. But my period was intermittent (diagnosed with PCOS), and was only two days late when I had abdominal cramping so I thought it was an ovarian cyst.. Made an appt with my OB, she agreed with me and then just randomly decided to check a urine pregnancy before I left since I was two days late.. Turns out, it was positive... I had to pick my OB GYNs chin up off the floor.. She had told me a year before that I'd NEVER get pregnant without fertility treatments... Yeah right!! I was knocked up two weeks after discontinuing birth control pills... But I had no other symptoms.. I didn't gain any weight until the end of my second trimester.. I can see how you might mistake the kicks for something else, and unless you're really looking at your belly, you may not see it move... I used to be an ER RN (now I work at home) but we had patients come in to the ER complaining of severe back/abdominal pain and then start screaming because they were giving birth.. They had no idea they were pregnant.. so it definitely happens.. Just kinda odd!!

skywa

Some people show NO symptoms during pegnancy, and depending on how big the baby is, how it sits in your abdomen, and how much your weight, you may not be able to tell you even have a belly at all.

No body noticed my mother was pregnant until she was 7-8 months. And she was quite thin at the time. She was able to go on her daily jogs every morning until the last 2 months.

I personally have never had a phantom kick. But i have also never been pregnant before. So perhaps it is the memory of being pregnant that insites these imaginary kicks. Perhaps they are merely flash backs. Or different feelings entirely that your mind chooses to compare to the feeling of pregnancy.

ARMom8251

I go through periods when I am sick to my stomach every morning, everything makes me gag, my sense of smell is sensitive and I am exhausted. I had a hysterectomy 4 years ago and still the first thing to cross my mind is "pregnant?" Of course I have 4 kids so maybe it is more a habit than anything...:laugh:

Ahhhhahaha I have four kiddos myself, so this was far more amusement in truth kind of thing!!

korsicash

I was 7 months and had no clue. Blood tests came back negative, I was in and out of the hosp that 7 months everyone missed it. I didn't have a clue until I started the pre lactation. I didn't "miss" my cycle because for 8 years I never had a cycle. I was diagnosed infertile. Imagine being diagnosed infertile, never going to have a baby, so sick they are doing procedures monthly to keep food in your system, loose a ton of weight and then get told in 8 weeks you are going to be a mom. BTW they were off 6 weeks later I was a mom. I am so blessed he is abnormally smart, perfect in every way a complete blessing. Not the way I ever want a number two to come into the world but so glad I have a miracle baby!

WhitneyAnnabelle

My mother-in-law gave birth on the toilet, though she did know she was pregnant (but didn't go to an OBGYN until 7 months because she was fighting to keep another child with cancer alive). Not exactly like the show, but close enough. When I'm pregnant, I sure as hell want to know I am. The show is most disturbing because of all the terrible behaviors people continue during their unbeknownst pregnancies (binge drinking, smoking, etc.). I guess the possibility of accidental pregnancy is a good reason NOT to do all of those things.

abigailmariecs

I currently freak out every time I am late. I was the girl who always got her period sunday night/ monday morning on the sugar pills. Since my last pregnancy it is Saturday night, or Sunday morning when I am starting a new pack that I finally have my period. For the entire week I am a mess. I have two children 13 months apart in age and the oldest is 19 months. While we would like to have more children I would like for there to be a slightly larger age gap between them.

I have been pregnant 7 times and only carried to term twice. After the third misscarage I was told that I would not be able to carry to term. The worst part was I got pregnant each time while on the pill. For the first trimester of my first successful pregnancy I thought I might be but had just misscarried 2 months prior to that pregnancy and I never got pregnant within 8 months of a misscariage. It took me another two weeks to make and appointment because I was sure I was going to misscarry and the OB had not been able to do anything for me in the past so I did not want to go through the confirmation and loss for the 6th time. Every misscariage I have had has been in the first trimester or just two or three weeks into my second. When I recieved confirmation I was not happy like I wanted so badly to be. I kept thinking I am pregnant today but what about tomorrow, this went on until I was about 28 weeks. Yes there are things that can happen after that point but the success rate for children born 28 weeks and up is much higher. I finally started buying baby thing, I started telling everyone. Everyone assume I was still in my first trimester as I did not show until I was 8 months pregnant, then I seemed to pop overnight.