D.C. Area Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
How can people not tell they are pregnant?
This is just blowing my mind, my cousin just found out she is pregnant at 17 weeks. She had no clue she was pregant, how did she find out you ask? She had been running and biking every day and feeling great. Even going to pilates but her tummy just wouldn't go away and she wasn't getting the results she wanted. So next logical step was to take a pregancy test and sure enough the doctor confirmed it.
This past month since I have been putting on some pounds I was hoping an accidental pregnancy was the reason, but I knew I seriously wasn't pregnant. I have never been pregnant but I feel like you would have some clue! At least she figured it out so she won't be on the TLC show about giving birth in a toilet!
Re: How can people not tell they are pregnant?
the body does funny things sometimes!
some women continue to bleed monthly even though they are pregnant. some women have such irregular cycles that missing a period isn't something that they would notice.
like PP, some women have no pregnancy symptoms at all.
some women's belly's blow up like balloons as soon as sperm meets egg (me). other women don't look pregnant until they are well into their third trimester (a good friend of mine).
genes, body shape and the precise position of the uterus play a big part in "showing."
I'm one of those people who freaks out at every little ache, pain and itch. So there's no way I could get out of the first trimester without figuring it out.
But, for some people who wouldn't show very soon (or are not huge hypochondriacs like me), I can see how you could get that far.
Stand up for something you believe in.
People who claim they "don't know" they're pregnant through their 3rd trimester are full of crap, in my opinion. When something is kicking you from the inside, you have to know something is going on, and it's either a baby or a major medical problem.
I can maybe see not knowing at 17 weeks if her cycles are extremely irregular.
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Pretty much this. If you felt perfectly normal, I can see getting halfway through a pregnancy before figuring it out. I felt awful from the get-go! But once you can start feeling movement - it feels downright alien to have something moving around inside you. How you could overlook that is a mystery to me!
This is totally me. I wish I didn't know as early as I did, though! That's the hardest secret in the world to keep!
while i can see not "knowing" until after 1st tri, it's also kind of a scary thought, ya know? that's a lot of prenatal care & testing that was missed! FWIW, I didn't really have morning sickness (the thought of food would sometimes gross me out, but I also feel that way in the summer when it's so ungodly hot) and didn't feel kicking until 20+ weeks too. If we weren't actively TTC, then my boobs being sore & having a hyper sense of smell wouldn't have been big enough to tip me off.
I hope the rest of your cousin's pregnancy is as easy-going as the beginning was!