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Surprise! You're in Labour.
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(Apr.06.09)
This Sunday I got sucked into a marathon viewing of a TV show called I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant. TLC aired a bunch of episodes back-to-back, each one featuring three women who had popped out a baby and didn't know they were pregnant at the time. Most of the mothers had made it past the 30 week mark (40 is full term) before their surprise labour. Some were carrying twins.
At the conclusion of each dramatization (there's nothing quite like a reenactment of an unplanned birth) the host would review the reasons this particular woman didn't think she was pregnant. Things like "test came back negative" or "had a history of irregular periods." Some "only gained a little more than ten pounds."
Ladies, are you kidding me?
I just don't understand how you don't know you are pregnant for that long. A few weeks, sure. Maybe even three months. But to make it to labour without an inkling? Come on.
Gaining ten pounds alone would make me wonder what was going on. Gaining ten pounds that had the ability to kick me from inside my uterus would certainly rouse suspicion. I've never been pregnant, but I know many mothers-to-be. If their stories are true, your fetus likes to mess with you. Stuff happens to your body. You are growing a little human being in your belly!
Apparently there are enough of these cases to occupy a full evening of cheesy documentary television. So it may not be common, but it's on the list of this happens. It only takes one story of "indigestion" followed by giving birth in a fast food restroom to ensure it will never happen to me.
Baby? What baby?
Photo from Mom4Life
