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As many times I have watched "I didn't know I was pregnant"

I still can't believe it!  It just seems so unreal.  Does anyone know anyone who has gone most of their pregnancy without knowing?  This totally freaks me out!

Re: As many times I have watched "I didn't know I was pregnant"

  • I totally agree. My TV was on TLC when I turned it on tonight and I watched for about 10 minutes. I personally don't know anyone but one of friends knew someone (apparently). It seems like a lot of the women on this show have been pregnant before and the 2nd pregnancy yielded different symptoms. Still though, how could you not know?
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  • It's such a crazy show... but believe it or not, I know of someone (a woman who works with my mother) who was 7 months pregnant and supposedly had an ultrasound looking for something else and discovered her baby. Yeah... just bizarre!
  • imagemesa81:
    It's such a crazy show... but believe it or not, I know of someone (a woman who works with my mother) who was 7 months pregnant and supposedly had an ultrasound looking for something else and discovered her baby. Yeah... just bizarre!

    Wow!

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    imagemesa81:
    It's such a crazy show... but believe it or not, I know of someone (a woman who works with my mother) who was 7 months pregnant and supposedly had an ultrasound looking for something else and discovered her baby. Yeah... just bizarre!

    Wow!

    Who knows the real story but this is what people were told.

  • Oh, I can't even watch that show anymore because it seems so ridiculous to me!

    My bff is a nurse and said she had an ER patient once who came in complaining of stomache pain, etc, and found out she was 4 months pg with TWINS!  So that's not anything crazy like going to the bathroom and hearing a baby crying like on that crazy show, but it's the closest story I know.

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  • I have a friend who found she was pregnant at 5 months. She had a 8 month old at the time (with IVF because she was told she couldn't get pregnant naturally) and was still breastfeeding/ hadn't started periods.  She went into the doctor because she wasn't losing the pregnancy weight.  
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  • I, too, watched I Didn't Know I was Pregnant last night.

    I started thinking maybe I'm pregnant and don't know it either. I started feeling my stomach like one of the doctors on the show did. LOL!

     I've been sick for awhile only in the morning and night. Now I'm terrified I'll be like one of them. Tongue Tied It doesn't help that AF, who is always on time wasn't the past few months and I don't recall actually having a real period. It was like spotting.

     Anyways watching the show made me want to see my doctor to make sure I don't end up like one of them not knowing!

  • I knew someone who was diagnosed with infertility and actually adopted a baby because she thought she couldn't have any herself.  She was training for a marathon so she thought the extra exercise was causing her to miss periods, but her stomach kept getting bigger so finally she went to the doctor because she didn't know what was going on.  I don't know how far along she was at that point, but definitely not into the third trimester.
  • I watch it and it makes me paranoid.
  • Seriously.  it's like... how do you NOT know??!
  • A girl I know didn't find out until she was 6 months along. I think she was in a car accident and got taken to the hospital and that was how she found out. Yikes!
  • A girl I went to high school with went to the hospital with severe stomach pains...they told the pains were because she was in labor...9 months, never knew she was pregnant.  I don't know how true the story is but I saw her about a month before she had the baby and I couldn't tell she was pregnant...and it's not like she's a heavy girl that would be able to hide it...she's really thin.
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    I, too, watched I Didn't Know I was Pregnant last night.

    I started thinking maybe I'm pregnant and don't know it either. I started feeling my stomach like one of the doctors on the show did. LOL!

     I've been sick for awhile only in the morning and night. Now I'm terrified I'll be like one of them. Tongue Tied It doesn't help that AF, who is always on time wasn't the past few months and I don't recall actually having a real period. It was like spotting.

     Anyways watching the show made me want to see my doctor to make sure I don't end up like one of them not knowing!

    If you're seriously concerned that you might be, just POAS. Save yourself the embarrassment at the doctors either way haha.

     

    I agree that all of the stories sound nuts to me! I guess I can see that if you have an anterior placenta or whatever, and can't feel kicks at all, but I feel like there are so many other things that should tip you off! Who knows haha.. I think a lot of the time since it's people who aren't trying, they are convincing themselves that the weird symptoms they have are due to something else. Just a whole lot of denial, if you ask me.

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  • Friend of mine was about 13 weeks before she figured it out. It was a huge whoopsie, so the morning sickness and exhaustion were mistaken for being sick. She didn't keep track of her periods, so she didn't notice she'd missed any. Who knows!


  • The only way I can maybe believe it's possible is if your cycle is completely crazy normally. But how do you not notice a separate life form?inside you?!? Come on, pay attention!

    Although when my (rather stout) grandma was expecting my mom, she announced it only 18 days before she was born (mom was a month early, but still), and everyone was completely surprised, no one had any idea. She knew, but no one else did, not even her parents. I've seen pictures of the day she announced it, and yeah, she doesn't look pregnant. But she definitely knew she was expecting.

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    I watch it and it makes me paranoid.

    This, definitely this.

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  • I work in maternity as an RN and most of my staff think the show is super rediculously fake and/or people are in denial. I myself am so intrigued with the show and can't believe that all of the people would make it up...but ask some of my co-workers and they'll tell you its all a crock of ...
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