I didn't even know I was pregnant!

@ckhair13 (185)
United States
July 26, 2009 8:53pm CST
I am watching this show with this name on TLC...I cannot believe all these women who didn't even know they were pregnant cuz they had no symptoms at all & didn't really miss their periods! They didn't know they were pregnant until they went to deliever! I can't even imagine! I mean I didn't know at first that I was pregnant cuz we had tried for so long that I think I kept it in the back of my mind cuz I didn't want to be dissappointed again, but when I got the nausea & the tiredness then I knew something was up & I was about 6 weeks when I found out...how far along were all of you? I know this does happen, I just can't imagine not even feeling your baby move cuz this kid never stopped moving & she still doesn't!! I'm not calling these women liars or anything, its just shocking to me!!
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• United States
27 Jul 09
I WAS SEVEN MONTHS WHEN i FOUND OUT THAT i WAS PREGNANT. I HAD NO SYMPTOMS. I WAS ON THE DEPO SHOT AND THEN I GOT OFF OF IT AND I HEARD THAT YOU COULD GO YEARS WITHOUT HAVING A PERIOD. SO I DIDN'T HAVE MY PERIOD FOR A LONG TIME AND I DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING ABOUT IT EXCEPT THAT IT WAS THE SHOT. THEN I FELT GASSY, AND KINDA LIKE SOMETHING WAS MOVING SO I WENT OUT AND GOT A TEST. IT WAS POSITIVE. SO I WENT OUT AND GOT ANOTHER AND THE SAME THING. I STILL DIDN'T BELIEVE IT SO I WENT TO THE DOCTOR TO TAKE THEIRS AND THEN I WOULD KNOW FOR SURE, IT WAS ALSO POSITIVE. THEN WE DID A SONOGRAM AND I THOUGHT THE DOCTOR WAS MESSING WITH ME, BUT I GOT TO SEE MY BABY FOR THE FIRST TIME. I ONLY GAINED 15 POUNDS DURING MY PREGNANCY AND IT DIDN'T START UNTIL I WAS SEVEN MONTHS ALONG.
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@ckhair13 (185)
• United States
27 Jul 09
Wow! That's amazing & must've been quite a shock to you!
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• United States
30 Jul 09
Hey there, amazing story.Just 15 pounds, how many pounds gained when your baby was born? I am pregnant right now( 38 weeks) and I gained 27 pounds allready.
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• United States
16 Oct 09
When I was pregnant for my now 3 year old, I only gained 14 pounds the whole pregnancy, and actually lost 4 pounds in the last month (I started out heavy, so was losing my own weight during the pregnancy). Also even the day before he was born nobody could tell I was pregnant. After he was born I'd run into people who'd seen me regularly during my pregnancy and they'd say "I didn't even know you were pregnant!" He was born a week late and weighed 7.6 lbs.
• United States
30 Jul 09
We ware so tired from disappointments, because I was not geting pregnant, my husband did not belived me that I am pregnant till he say the ulrasound for the first time, but I knew that I am pregnat from the begining, I could read the signs from my body. And I am watching this TV Show sometimes and I can not belive this stories...how you can not feel how your baby moves..
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• United States
27 Jul 09
hello there..and boy do i have story to tell lol..when i was preganant with Sky in 2001..i had noo idea..i have severe endometrosisi..and i get reg periods for a few mth then i dont for 6 ro 7 months..anywho..when i was prego i did have no diea..i was eating more and more but i thougth that was my meds i was on the always make me hungry.anywho i was about 7 mths pregnant..and thats when he started moving..but i thought it was gas lol lol!! baddd!!!! then i got sooo sick still in 7 mths..i went to the ER and they took blood and urine..next thing i know im prego!! next day had a ob appt and foudn i was 7 mths!! i literally passed outttt on the table..so yaaa...it totally coudl happen..if i didnt get so sick i neevr would have got checked and found out..
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
27 Jul 09
I think it's kinda weird too, but I was talking to a doctor about this very thing a couple weeks ago. He has had perfectly healthy patients - not just overweight - wonder why their indigestion never went away. Well, they were like 8 months pregnant! I knew pretty quickly with mine, I just did - this was before home pregnancy tests. I guess we're not all as in tune with our bodies...
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@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
27 Jul 09
I watched that show. I love it. I do believe its possible to not realize you are pregnant. I was around three to five weeks estimation when I found out I was pregnant. The thing that shocked me most in this show was some women were skinny the whole time. One girl was like size six which is about a little bigger then me. The reason women dont know though is some women to have bleeding during pregnancy and think its their period. Also movement sometimes cant be felt do to a pregnancy being more towards the back or so or a tilt uterus i believe. Some women think the movements are gas. There are other things as well. I alone didn't get any symptoms so its possible to not have any symptoms. The only symptom i got was missed period. Then later I did have movement. And then towards the end heartburn and cravings.
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• United States
27 Jul 09
I don't get it either, I definately could tell my son was growing inside me. He kicked so hard at the end I was feeling knocked around. Maybe some people have much smaller babies too? It must be a real situation in some cases, because it seems to happen more than I would have thought. I love the clip where the dr says you are in pain because you are delivering. And the lady says, what am I delivering? Ha ha ha.
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
27 Jul 09
how can women not know they were pregnant?? i think it is not even possible to have periods and be pregnant!!! maybe they did not have periods.. maybe it was some sort of spotting??
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@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
27 Jul 09
With our first child I was already 14 weeks pregnant when I found out. I had taken a test a few weeks before that but the second line was so faint I thought I wasn't pregnant. When I worked in daycare we had a mom who didn't find out she was pregnant till 3 days before she delivered. She had gone to the doctor because she was feeling sick. For some reason the doctor wouldn't give her a pregnancy test. So on friday she took one herself and found out she was pregnant. She made a doctor appointment for monday, ended up going into labor on sunday. She had to rush to get everything for the baby. That would be pretty crazy to not realize it. The way my kids moved there was no mistaking there was a baby in there.
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@smileonstar (4007)
• United States
27 Jul 09
Hello, I have two children and I knew right after I missed a few days of my period. You will feel great about it when your baby grow a little bigger. It is a great experience. Congratulation to you and I wish you have a great and healthy baby
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@coolblu (53)
• United States
27 Jul 09
I have 2 pregnancy where the babies moved and 2 that never moved at all..I was never had morning sickness with any of pregnancy and barely gained any weight. With my first pregnancy I was 3 months along and never knew it I passed out in a hallmark store then rushed to the doctors close by they asked me if I could be pregnant I said no way because I was on my period but I would skip every other month. WIth my last pregnancy I thought that I miscarried all of them since 4 fetus droped in the toilet I didn't think that I was still pregnant. I was depressed at that time to think of anything else that I wanted to be left alone. So my boyfriend said to me months later he was take me to the hospital to get checked out long behold I was still pregnant with a baby. Now my little girl will be turning 4 next week..
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@nehaagra (848)
• Singapore
27 Jul 09
For me i'm very very regular with my periods, so even if it is 1 day late i get worried . And for me with in 5th week of my pregnancy , i knew i was pregnat both the times... But yep in my both pregnancies, there was no syntoms , like nausea and all.., but within 3 months, you can see the changes happening to your body, and after 5 months tummy tooo can be seen,and the movements are sumply unavoidable... How then these womwn didn't knew till delivery, that they are pregnant.. Amazing..
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• United States
27 Jul 09
I know what you mean. I knew with all of mine instinctively without even having symptoms. Even with my current one. I knew it before I could even take the test to confirm it. Im 6 weeks now and still not having symptoms. I think some moms just get so busy with their day to say lives. Most moms on that show seem to be preoccupied or wraped up is something so the brush off what symptoms they do have as a result of those things. I couldnt imagine not knowing myself. But it happens.
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
27 Jul 09
That television show never ceases to amaze me. The stories are just unbelievable. Even my husband will say, "How can a woman not know she is pregnant." I never had any pregnancy symptoms with and of my three pregnancies. When I had a miscarriage at nine weeks, I wouldn't have even known there had been a miscarriage involved in that one because I'd spotted on and off just like the indications of my birth control said could happen instead of period after long term use. I only knew I had a miscarriage because I'd had a tampon in that was pushed out. The pain was just intense. With my oldest daughter, I found out that I was pregnant at 16 weeks. But, I think part of the reason for that is that I didn't think I could be pregnant and was afraid of being pregnant, in addition to not having nausea/weight gain/etc.
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27 Jul 09
I love watching that show. I would probably not know if I was pregnant either if I became pregnant because my periods are highly irregular. I stopped taking pregnancy tests because I was tired of being disappointed.
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• Canada
27 Jul 09
With my second, I really wanted to be pregnant. We had been trying for awhile (after getting pregnant on the very first try with the first child) and it just wasn't happening. Every month, my period would show up right on schedule and my heart would break a little more. However, I did notice that, while I was still having them, the periods had become a little lighter - not significantly but just enough to be noticed. I was scheduled for a regular doctor's appointment and decided, that morning, to take yet another pregnancy test "just in case." It was positive. I didn't say anything to anyone and just told my doctor about the result. She did the exam and said, "Well congratulations! You're definitely pregnant..." and, as I was grinning from ear to ear, she finished her sentence with "... I'd say between 12 and 16 weeks." I was floored LOL Then, of course, I started running through my mind wondering if I had done anything I shouldn't have during that time - and realized I'd stood right next to my two and a half year old, holding her hand during some kind of scary tests and xrays, assuring them all the while that there was "no way" that I was pregnant *sigh* Fortunately, there were no ill effects from it and I had the greatest - and it seemed the shortest! LOL - pregnancy.
@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
12 Aug 09
My baby barely moved. I very rarely felt him move or kick. Scared me. My mom had her period through out most of her pregnancy. With my pregnancy I knew the instant he was conceived - or felt I knew - and I was right!
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
16 Oct 09
I was about 3 months along when I found out about my last son. Unlike my other pregnancies, I did not have any symptoms that time. Every one before that I had the nausia and the exhaustion but the last time was totally different. I didn't expect I could get pregnant because my hubby had a vasectomy. After that I stopped keeping track of my menstrual so never realized how late I was. I started to think about it and realized it had definitly been over a month since my last period, but thought it must have been due to something else. I was certain there was no way I could be pregnant. Eventually I took the test just to see and sure enough, I was pregnant!
@jd107nette (1454)
• Philippines
23 Mar 10
hahaha... how does it feel to experience the same thing? haha.. maybe sometimes you really can't take notice of it. especially if you're a busy woman. busy with work, with business of some sort... you wouldn't recognize it until the symptoms show
• India
20 Jul 10
Yes it happens many times usually during the first pregnancy, many can't know this.. but in subsequent ones they can feel movement of the baby in the belly.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor
• United States
31 Mar 10
i love that show!!!!! i agree with you on not feeling there baby at all i find it strange. i think the woman who dont make it to the hospital are the funnest tho...the ones who have there baby in the toilet priceless. can you immagine? *looks down* OMG!!!!!! there's a baby in the toilet hahaha