Woman gives birth - Didn't know she was pregnant!

Hikari Kisugi said:
Hang on, no period for 8 months and these people just blame stress, never once think to try a simple pregnancy test for the sake of a couple of £?
Muppets.

Simple answers are using the right answer, no period for 8 months, likely you're pregnant until a test disproves it.

And to whoever said the doc missed someone who was 8 months pregnant, then the doc clearly didn't do a proper abdominal examination. Ridiculous.
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are you talking about the girl in the op's link? that doesnt say she didnt have a period. besides, women can be pregnant and have periods OR they can be on the pill, get pregnant not knowing and CARRY ON not having periods.

Ridiculous?
 
Yes i know you 'can' miss for long periods of time, but it is stupid to blame stress and not investigate the matter.

Like the pain in your stomach that old folks used to think was cancer and they just didn't talk about it, which when actually investigated turned out to be an ulcer, and was easily treatable.

Investigate the problem, don't bloody assume. Its a quick and easy test.


james.miller what are you talking about? Periods during pregnancy is exceptionally rare, much more uncommon than the amount of replies in this tread from people who know people who didn't know they were pregnant.
I wasn't talking about the girl in the OP, I was talking about the reply late on page1.
A GP not carrying out a proper exam (for the same later reply) is indeed ridiculous, happens far too often.
Most girls on pill still have periods of bleeding, so I don't know what you mean by carry on not having periods due to the pill.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Yes i know you 'can' miss for long periods of time, but it is stupid to blame stress and not investigate the matter.
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Quite a number of females don't have regular periods, hence why some do find it have to concieve. My GF for one have one every 6 months or so.

Yes people could be paying out a couple of pounds for a test here and there, but do you think after the 5th or so test you'll just start thinking its your body playing up and to no longer bother wasting time and money on a test every so often
 
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Hikari Kisugi said:
Yes i know you 'can' miss for long periods of time, but it is stupid to blame stress and not investigate the matter.

Like the pain in your stomach that old folks used to think was cancer and they just didn't talk about it, which when actually investigated turned out to be an ulcer, and was easily treatable.

Investigate the problem, don't bloody assume. Its a quick and easy test.


james.miller what are you talking about? Periods during pregnancy is exceptionally rare, much more uncommon than the amount of replies in this tread from people who know people who didn't know they were pregnant.
I wasn't talking about the girl in the OP, I was talking about the reply late on page1.
A GP not carrying out a proper exam (for the same later reply) is indeed ridiculous, happens far too often.
Most girls on pill still have periods of bleeding, so I don't know what you mean by carry on not having periods due to the pill.
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No it isn't. Many of my friends have had some kind of period while being pregnant. It's not unusual at all and rare or not...it does happen. There is often little rhyme or reason as to period patterns, I've missed in the past or been very late for no apparent reason, it can be down to something as simple as a hormone inbalance or stress. It can also go the other way.

Most pills stop periods altogether as does the injection obviously dependant upon the body of the person who is taking them.

It is becoming more and more common that girls don't realise they are pregnant despite the amount of education that is around these days. It's not always as simple as you think to tell if you have a bun in the oven or not.
 
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Yup, it happens.

Bodies are very strange things - and indeed periods aren't this super-regular thing for many women. Some (like the one mentioned above) will go without for 6 months, and some (like me) have to go on the pill to regulate periods which are otherwise one week on, one week off.

Think about it, 6 lbs is less than half a stone. Inside a week or two my weight can easily shift around from 10 to 10.5 stone, sometimes it creeps up to near 11 but comes back down again a week later. Half a stone would easily get missed within that variation.

Lots of people don't realise. My mum (who had been told she wouldn't be able to conceive and had multiple cysts on her ovaries, like I do now) was told by a lady at work one day "You're pregnant. I can see it in you." - though this was only a number of weeks in...
 
Minxy said:
Most pills stop periods altogether as does the injection obviously dependant upon the body of the person who is taking them.
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Well, most have a 'free' week or a run of sugar pills which should allow a period to come through.
When I was on the injection, my body was still so keen to have its period that it basically kept 'spotting' throughout.

The Pill and injection and implant work by fooling your body its pregnant, therefore not releasing eggs, and not letting the womb lining out.

The fact that I have such a 'keen' period implies that if/when I do eventually fall pregnant, I'll probably be one of these odd ones that keeps having one.
 
Yeah 6lbs might be less than half a stone, but then there's placenta around the same weight, and fluid around the baby of several pounds as well.
Giving birth to a child of 6lbs, means significantly more weight than half a stone.

I know some show more than others, but to get no contarcts no braxtonhicks, no kicks at all during the maternity periods and to feel nothing just sounds messed up.
 
sara said:
Well, most have a 'free' week or a run of sugar pills which should allow a period to come through.
When I was on the injection, my body was still so keen to have its period that it basically kept 'spotting' throughout.

The Pill and injection and implant work by fooling your body its pregnant, therefore not releasing eggs, and not letting the womb lining out.
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Agreed, the easiest way of telling if you are pregnant or not is probably not to take any hormone based contraceptives at all.:eek::) That way when your body does do something out of the ordinary it is more likely to be down to pregnancy than if you were on the pill etc.

P.S I am not advising anyone not to use contraceptives!!
 
sunnysingh said:
She must be mega fat or she was wagging science class when the teacher were explaing sex
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"Inside my meatloaf there are jewels. These jewels are eggs."

Nothing sensible to add, but that made me chuckle last night. Interestingly I did have this conversation with my other half last week, there was a program on 5 iirc called "I didn't know I was pregnant."
 
mglover070588 said:
There is no possible way that someone can be pregnant and not know at all until the baby arrives.

She is making it up for the publicity.
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A minor story in a tabloid is hardly publicity, she won't be making any/much money from this at all. Hundreds maybe.

As I said before, my girlfriend's mother was totally unawares until she went into labour. She'd been skiing a few months before, and all her normal functions carried on completely as normal throughout her pregnancy. She didn't get any morning sickness to speak of, nothing was particularly unusual. She'd put on a little weight, that's literally it.

It DOES happen, can't you see that from the multiple accounts people have given in this thread?
 
Woman in a company my girlfriend works for gave birth at work. Now she's suing the company for "Not doing enough to notice she was pregnant".
How the hell can other people realise/know she's pregnant if she doesn't know!
 
Minxy said:
Agreed, the easiest way of telling if you are pregnant or not is probably not to take any hormone based contraceptives at all.:eek::) That way when your body does do something out of the ordinary it is more likely to be down to pregnancy than if you were on the pill etc.

P.S I am not advising anyone not to use contraceptives!!
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I've never been a huge fan of popping hormones, but equally I'm even less of a fan of having a 2-week menstrual cycle (it kicked off when I was about 17 and I think two ran into one, giving me a supermega 2+ week period)!

Basically (to those) lads (who aren't getting it) - it's literally bloody complicated. Okay?
 
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