http://health.discovery.com/tv/i-didnt-know-i-was-pregnant/about.html

Has anyone else seen this show? If you can mistake having a bowel movement for giving birth, maybe you need to eat some more fiber.

10/6/2009 9:17:03 PM

DUH!

this show is old news dude

but yes, i enjoy it


(and yes, if you mistake having a baby for pooping - you might have bigger issues )

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 9:18 PM. Reason : .]

10/6/2009 9:17:48 PM

yeah, saw that show a couple of weeks ago

weird shit. but I guess it happens

10/6/2009 9:17:55 PM

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"If you can mistake having a bowel movement for giving birth, maybe you need to eat some more fiber."

10/6/2009 9:18:29 PM

i mean i don't know about anyone else but my vagina doesn't hurt when i poop

10/6/2009 9:19:03 PM

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"One woman even gets the surprise of her life when she unknowingly gives birth to twins!"

How fucking fat are you to begin with that you don't realize you're pregnant with twins?

10/6/2009 9:19:54 PM

^^ sounds like you have a pretty boring sex life

10/6/2009 9:20:02 PM

Having had a child, you have to be a complete moron or in some serious to have been pregnant and to not know it. I even know someone who was 7+ months pregnant before they knew about it and I still don't understand it.

And the weight gain aside, babies MOVE. What in the hell do you think it is in there?

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM. Reason : Aliens.]

10/6/2009 9:21:03 PM

but on this show, and i know we've talked about it before, there have been 110lb women who have not known.

i mean wtf.

10/6/2009 9:21:40 PM

Yeah. The weight thing doesn't bother me. At 9 months pregnant, I weighed 20 lbs less than I did when I got pregnant and I was still wearing the same old clothes.

It's all the other pregnancy symptoms that these people ignore that I don't get.

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 9:23 PM. Reason : .]

10/6/2009 9:22:53 PM

Yea..... Not quite sure about the people on the show.


Only way I could understand you not realizing it is if you have a very VERY irregular cycle, and you don't have the whole morning sickness issue in the first trimester.

Beyond that - no clue

10/6/2009 9:23:00 PM

I really don't get this at all. How unaware of your own body are you to not realize what is going on?

I remember I worked with a chick in high school that was getting fatter and fatter in her tummy region. We finally asked her if she was pregnant and she freaked out and went to the doctor. Turned out to be a 40-pound tumor in her abdomen

10/6/2009 9:23:46 PM

i just don't get how someone who weights 110lbs doesn't know. surely their body has to change. i mean they don't give birth to 4lb babies so what is the deal?

and if i was throwing up or i didn't have a period for like 8 months, i'd be like well shit should probably call the doctor

10/6/2009 9:24:30 PM

Seriously. I wasn't even very far into my pregnancy when I couldn't roll on my stomach w/o feeling like I was laying on some kind of lump.

10/6/2009 9:26:15 PM

i guess i can't talk because i've never been pregnant (like a lot of women on this show) but i mean, honestly when i throw up (not from drinking) the first thing that goes through my mind is "holy shit please don't let me be pregnant"

i guess i'm just paranoid

10/6/2009 9:27:54 PM

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"when i throw up (not from drinking)"

I like the qualifier

10/6/2009 9:29:52 PM

everytime I sneeze or cough, or show any symptoms of any illness my sister asks me if I'm pregnant.

10/6/2009 10:03:00 PM

oh she must work at Student Health

10/6/2009 10:05:22 PM

ZING!

10/6/2009 10:06:30 PM

Im talking to a guy right now that has a cousin that just had a baby and had no idea she was pregnant. No morning sickness, never felt the baby move, had her period the entire 9 months. Told her mom the day she gave birth her "period cramps" were really bad. Took her to the hospital, the drs didnt realize at first she was pregnant. Did a pelvic eval on her and said she had a tampon stuck in her and that's where her pain was coming from. Dr got the forceps out and realized a few seconds later it was the babys head. Several pushes later she had a full term baby girl.

10/6/2009 10:07:32 PM

^^^ haha. I wonder which is higher over in the student health center right now, swine flu or pregnancies.

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 10:09 PM. Reason : .]

10/6/2009 10:08:54 PM

this show freaks me out.

10/6/2009 10:16:46 PM

If I let occamsrezr watch this he'll start throwing me down stairs

10/6/2009 10:18:11 PM

^^^compare negative swine flu tests vs negative pregnancy tests and you've got a real match

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 10:18 PM. Reason : ^]

10/6/2009 10:18:42 PM

I've seen the show and it's so crazy!!!!

10/6/2009 10:20:56 PM

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"^^ sounds like you have a pretty boring sex life "

10/6/2009 10:31:33 PM

Maybe if I tell my sister that I am pregnant she'll stop asking. This could work.

10/6/2009 10:45:14 PM

This happened to my second cousins wife. She had a baby nine months prior and had a regular period, no cravings, no breast tenderness, no extra weight gain, couldn't feel any movement in that area... She woke up one night with severe pain and thought it was a bad stomach ache. She saw all the blood, turned around to vomit, Gary walked in, and the baby was crowning. The baby was born on the bathroom floor.

She said she honestly had no idea and everything was normal : / until then of course!

10/6/2009 11:20:08 PM

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"If you can mistake having a bowel movement for giving birth, maybe you need to eat some more fiber. "

bowel movements and giving birth often happen contemporaneously.

10/6/2009 11:43:18 PM

I can understand knowing your pregnant but not knowing your pregnant with twins...but the whole not knowing you're pregnant...I think I would have to see it to believe it.

10/7/2009 12:44:38 AM

I was born 4.5 lbs.

10/7/2009 3:07:36 AM

We, my wife and I, have a friend who doesn't feel contractions, literally has no labor pain at all... Now she's a small person, and seems to get all the other typical signs of pregnancy normally... So I guess it's theoretically possible

When she dropped the line (while my wife was in labor) "It's okay, you don't need those painkillers!" after the wife's epidural quit working...

Let's just say, we were not amused.

[Edited on October 7, 2009 at 6:37 AM. Reason : .]

10/7/2009 6:37:02 AM

i have a friend whose girlfriend at the time (now wife) didn't know she was pregnant for 5 months. she had her period and everything was normal and she happened to have her gyno appointment in that time and found out that way.

similar story with my mom in fact. She weighs between 105 and 115 at any given time and didn't know until about month 5 or 6.

happens more often than people think.

10/7/2009 9:37:20 AM

i love this show

but it freaks me out to no end

10/7/2009 10:17:22 AM

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"bowel movements and giving birth often happen contemporaneously. "

this IS true.

but i'd hope that normal bowel movements don't feel like birth bowel movements

i mean a baby? that is one GIANT shit.

10/7/2009 10:23:59 AM

some people don't get enough fiber

10/7/2009 10:27:26 AM

In my opinion, not knowing for several months is very different from not knowing until you give birth. Before pregnancy tests, I imagine that it wasn't too uncommon not to know until after the first trimester.

10/7/2009 10:27:44 AM

^

10/7/2009 10:28:19 AM

right. i mean its def possible for people not to know for several months. but a lot of times on this show they don't know until they are giving or AFTER they have given birth.

the one i watched last night the girl didn't know until after her baby was in the toilet and she stood up from going poo poo and was attached to the toilet by the umbilical cord.

10/7/2009 10:29:17 AM

I hope the first girl I knock up doesn't shit whilst delivering

It will ruin it for me

10/7/2009 10:29:29 AM

oh she will. possibly more than once.

10/7/2009 10:30:15 AM

the one that freaks me out the most on this show is the girl who never showed b/c the baby sat more towards her back instead of her front.

i mean she was a 125-130lb chick, losing weight during her pregnancy, had spotting so she didn't think anything of it, and had NO clue. iirc she was the one that gave birth a few days before her wedding.

10/7/2009 10:32:30 AM

That show was insanity! I watched probably 5 episodes and then I think Joe removed it from our DVR list.... oops.

10/7/2009 11:48:15 AM

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"Danille stops going to the clinic that summer; she no longer takes monthly pregnancy tests and stops taking birth control. She does, however, continue to get what she believes is her period every month...Danille doesn't notice anything out of the ordinary..That fall Danille gains a few pounds. 'I thought she was just eating a lot of fast food burgers and fries.' 'Is there any way you can be pregnant?' 'No!'"

>.<

[Edited on October 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM. Reason : Danille's about to deliver her fourth child and she didn't know she was pregnant. O LAWD]

10/7/2009 11:59:26 AM

I just saw this on the soup

10/7/2009 12:06:49 PM

I think I would be more inclined to believe the person honestly didn't know if they had already had kids. Leanne (see my story above) already had two kids prior and went through all the normal symptoms. She's really tall and had already had extra weight from the baby before that so maybe she really didn't show. My cousin didn't even notice it.. I would think the husband would notice if his wife is showing, ya know?

I guess I'm not that shocked by it if they don't exhibit any signs. I mean, the body does strange things - there have been many cases of women going into "labor" that weren't even pregnant. I actually did a long research paper on that subject for my class last semester and everyone was all "how do you not know you're NOT pregnant?!" But that shit happens more than you'd think.

10/7/2009 1:15:29 PM

If we accept that there are symptoms that are average and follow a bell curve pattern, then women on one extreme would not experience them or experience them lightly and on the on side, the women would over-experience those symptoms.

It's statistics!

10/7/2009 1:24:50 PM

bitch that is on right now is so dumb

she didn't know she was pregnant twice

AND she didn't use BC either. she didn't think it was a "big deal" cause she was on her period

10/13/2009 9:24:47 PM

Setemup

10/13/2009 9:25:43 PM

like some of these i KIND OF understand. and some i understand totally.

but the ones where the girls are like "yeaaa i got really bad cramps and i had skipped my birth control" or "i skipped my BC and didn't have my period i just thought it was stress"

i mean really. if i feel sick to my stomach i'm always like "OMG i'm probably pregnant becaus ei don't take my BC at the same time everyday"

i just don't get these people!

10/13/2009 9:34:08 PM