How do you NOT know????

[Catholic Wife]

A friend of mine told me that she just found out that her daughter is pregnant -- due any day now! That's great, except my friend told me that her daughter claims that she didn't know that she was pregnant. Her daughter is plus-sized (maybe a size 24/26?), so I can understand that she may not have been showing as much as a smaller woman would. My question is, for all of you ladies who have been or currently are pregnant, HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW that you are nine months pregnant??? Don't you feel the baby moving around inside???

 

[KillerV]

Wow. That must have been one really small quite baby

 

[Linnis]

A lady at walmart had the baby in the store said she didn't know she was pregnant. I think it's probably a good case of denial personally.

 

[Krystina661]

I've heard of this before and have no freakin clue HOW you could not possibly know you are pregnant. And not to be mean but you would have to be a pretty big lady not to know, and even if that was the case.. I don't see how you could not feel your child inside of you.. extra weight or not ....

 

[lin1235]

I also find this strange... but I have heard that it's much harder to feel your baby move if you're heavy. My MIL (who is tiny) told me she could feel her baby move at 12 weeks already, so kept asking if I'd felt anything yet from about 11 weeks, but I read a lot about it and (since I'm size 14-16) I expected to only feel it later, and did (week 17). I would guess that it is possible to be so overweight that you don't feel it. But it's still really strange!

 

[CarrieAg93]

A friend of mine's sister had no idea she was pregnant until she was 6 mos. She'd had problems with previous pregnancies and had internal scarring so she couldn't feel the baby move and was told she'd never be able to have kids again. She was having her periods regularly. She was overweight and dieting so while she was gaining weight from the pregnancy it was off set by her losing weight due to dieting. She found out because she went to the doctor to find out why she was excercising and dieting, but not losing weight. Boy was she shocked.

This an odd case. I don't know that she could have made it to 9 mos. without figuring it out on her own. I agree that most times it has to be denial.

 

[jessesgirl]

I know a couple of people who were extremely heavy and didn't know they were pregnant til they went to the hopsital with back pains and had a baby...I think its probably true that the heavier you are, the less likely you are to feel the baby.

For me personally, Justin moves around so much that I could never mistake it for gas or something else, he is very distinct.

 

[JulySheMustFly]

I didn't know with my first until 3 months, but I was so fit and active that my periods were super irregular and it wasn't unusual for me to miss 2 months in a row. I also didn't know till about 3 or 4 months with my third because I was breastfeeding I didn't get my period.

I can't figure how you wouldn't atleast see the doctor for some changes in how you would feel for 9 months. I've heard it before but think there is a level of denial involved to let it go that long.

 

[wanderingone]

As far as I know being heavy doesn't mean the inside of your uterus has extra padding, I don't know why you wouldn't feel a baby moving, I can grasp not being aware for quite awhile, (I was heading towards 5 months with my youngest, but I had a normal period and had been taking the pill.. and admittedly I wasn't looking to be pregnant so I suspect I disregarded other symptoms. At 8 and 9 months I don't care how large a woman you are, your internal organs are getting shoved around by a moving growing baby. There's denial, lack of familiarity with your own body, and perhaps ignorance about the symptoms of pregnancy going on in most cases of "not knowing" until the labor is underway.

 

[Athene]

Maybe they thought it was really really bad trapped wind.

 

[okiemommy26]

Some women keep on having periods all through their pregnancy too.

 

[Krystina661]

Maybe they thought it was really really bad trapped wind.

 

[InTheFlame]

Maybe they thought it was really really bad trapped wind.

Yeah, if you're medically obese AND have a bad diet, an extremely 'active' digestion system is quite normal... lots of pains, gas bubbling through, etc. It could mimic a lot of other pg symptoms too, like nausea and tiredness.

I'm always sceptical that someone would just plain not know, I must admit. The symptoms do seem incredibly obvious to me! BUT I'm trying to see that it might actually happen (and boy, what a shock it'd be).

 

[PegasusOnFire]

I don't know, I am a very large woman, on Tuesday I was 269.0lbs/122.27kg. I know I could feel my first when I was pregnant with her, and I know I will be able to feel this one. It has to be denile.

 

[RedTulipMom]

I think every woman is different and i dont think it has anything to do with size. I have heard of people not knowing they were pregnant till 6 or 7 mos along. The woman next to my mom in the hospital came in with a "stomach ache" and delivered a baby!

i am a plus sized woman..and with both pregnancies at about 5 weeks the nausea sets in really bad and there is NO WAY i wouldnt KNOW i was pregnant. But i have cousins and sil's that get NO NAUSEA at all. i also get a STRONG sense of smell by week 5-6 of pregnancy. I started feeling the baby kicking about 5 mos along, though i must admit i didnt feel the kicking too strongly even at the end, but i still FELT it.

I just think some woman for some reason dont have symptoms of pregnancy..and they either keep getting their period OR they are woman who rarely ever get a period.

 

[purpleunicorn_Andi]

more than likey denile, we had a friend...well my husband knew her who was extreamly small...went to the hospital with bad pains, and gave birth...the baby was born at 24 or 25 months, unfortunately the baby did not make it. ( I admit I was jealouse I had misscarried a few months earlier, and was jealous that she had a chance for closure, got to hold her baby for a little bit)
but I think with a lot of people it is denile...I knew a week before I got a possitive with both my son and my misscarriage that I was pregnate. this one I was trying not to believe it...

 

[purpleunicorn_Andi]

more than likey denile, we had a friend...well my husband knew her who was extreamly small...went to the hospital with bad pains, and gave birth...the baby was born at 24 or 25 months, unfortunately the baby did not make it. ( I admit I was jealouse I had misscarried a few months earlier, and was jealous that she had a chance for closure, got to hold her baby for a little bit)
but I think with a lot of people it is denile...I knew a week before I got a possitive with both my son and my misscarriage that I was pregnate. this one I was trying not to believe it... not sure if I wanted to be or not, but was convinced I wasn't (after a month of - tests started testing july 4th (arround a month after my last period) and didn't get a + till july 30th... turns out I didn't ovulate in june... this one was not planned...if it had been I'd be delivering arround thanksgiving (to get out of the holiday rush!!!!)