Do you believe the stories, about women not knowing they were pregnant ??

I don't believe any woman who went through school in the US past the 8th grade if they make this claim. It is simply impossible. But I do believe that it could be possible if the woman never went to school, was locked in a closet until the very day she got out and got pregnant and didn't know a thing about the real world. Sorry didn't mean to be cynical in your discussion I just hate when people play stupid.

I have heard of this as well. The period thing is an easy one to discredit LOL not all women have regular periods like me when I got pregnant with my son I probably would not have know til he was kicking me if I hadn't decided to get checked. My periods were so outta whack I didn't really think about it until I realised it was going on 3 months without it LOL so I just asked the doc to check me for it when I went in for a visit because I was sick. LOL I have a lot of doubts about women that say they didn't know til they gave birth there's just no way in my opinion.

This has become somewhat of an interesting subject as I have had the opportunity to meet someone who said his wife had no idea that she was pregnant until the seventh month. This is incredible. Do you not think that if there were symptoms that she wold have gone to the doctor to see what was wrong? If she did not want to go to the doctor, then she could have gotten a home pregnancy test to find out if the symptoms that she was having were those of being pregnant or something else that was terribly wrong. I do know some women who claimed to never have any symptoms until she discovered, "Hey, wait a minute, I am putting on weight. Why? And what is that movement in my stomach region? Well, it couldn't be that food I had for dinner last night now, could it? It is definitely weird in my eyes when someone tells you that we had no idea she was pregnant until the baby actually arrived. Then again, we do hear of women who have babies and then abandon them in trash dumpsters or elsewhere. Do these women have any idea they are pregnant until the baby is actually delivered? Who knows. Yet, this is an interesting subject.

thats a bunch of hog wash pregnancy has many symptoms and it is really hard for me to comprehend u dont know u are pregnant other than morning sickness there is the swelling of the belly and there comes a time when the baby moves around and u can see and feel it i dont buy the idea that they did not know they were pregnant i am unable to fathom any 1 with increasing symptoms would not seek medical help my god where are they brains

Huh! I can't believe it. Getting pregnant is one thing that women will definitely know maybe in the first weeks yes its unnoticeable. But for the whole month of pregnancy that's crazy if you'll not know that your pregnant. The fact that our body shape change at the time of pregnancy and it will be dumb if you'll not know it...

Yes I do believe - I was one of these woman. Having been told it was unlikely I would be able to have children (I also didn't have periods to miss) my husband and I went to a specialist to discover I was in fact 3 and half months pregnant. Yippee, after this first child we tried for years for another one with no result. I was extremely thin at only 7 and half stone and got back from a trip abroad feeling yuk, went to the doctors complaining of severe tummy pain to be told I was heavily pregnant. Two weeks later I'm sure the neighbours thought I had stolen a baby. I had no physical signs of pregnancy at all. Since then I have been blessed with a third child 16 years later but on this occassion I did know early on. My sister in law was also taken to hospital for an operation for them to discover she was 5 and half months pregnant and she is a paramedic and only a week before she had taken a woman to hospital in labour who didn't knowshe was pregnant so she got really ribbed at work as she had asked the same question as you at the time. LOL Ellie

I can understand it up to around 5, maybe 6 months. Especially if it is the first because the movements are hard to tell at first. But after that it is called denial. There is no way you can go 9 months and not know something was wrong with your body. I am very overweight and I could still feel the baby move with every pregnancy and you could see it move from the outside (which is like the freakiest thing ever, lol). If they truly have no clue then they are oblivious to life around them. Mostly I think it is denial. They don't want to believe they are pregnant so they keep telling themselves they aren't and believe it no matter how much they feel the baby move--they say it is something else to ease their own guilt or whatever.

I agree! And especially when you have already had a child or two. I don't get it either.

I do not understand how a women does not no when she is pregnant.I read and heard stories like this to.I had four kids and I always knew when I was pregnant. Some women must be really dumb.

I definitely believe that all women know when they are pregnant. Maybe not at first, but you have to know once your child starts moving around in you. I think that in cases where girls say they didn't know is one...their parents would kill them if they knew they were pregnant, or 2...that they just dont' want to face it that they are. I don't believe for one second that any woman wouldn't know that she was pregnant. I just assume, for what ever reason or circumstance, they try to hide it. thanks for sharing and God bless

I do believe. I have a friend who doesn't know that she is pregnant till she is about six month of pregnancy. The reason she did not know is because she still have her monthly XXXXX. Till about six months than she realise that her stomach is getting bigger and her back started to ache. She suspected that she is pregnant so she went for a check up and she is really pregnant for about six months.

yeah i know someone who didn't know they were pregnant. i was. well i found the day before my 30th birthday. all the time i had ate something i shouldn't have. i was having stomach pains. the doctor told me i was pregnant. i came close to passing out in the floor. i do believe the stories. i feel that you don't know what to look for then you won't know. the symptoms are different for everybody.

I'm not exactly sure how a woman would'nt know they are pregnant. I had a friend in highschool who claims she didnt know she was pregnant. She was a bigger girl and she didnt "look" pregnant. She just looks like she had put on a few pounds all around. She didnt have any morning sickness or anything like that either. She claims that when the baby moved she thought it was just gas and what not. Being 34 pregnant and a big girl myself I'm not sure how she still couldn't know. The baby moves around and I can watch it, so I know its not gas. I think people just dont want to admit to themselves they are pregnant

yup.. our clinical instructors tell us stories how some of their patients were unaware that they were already pregnant.. one of them didnt know that she's already seven months pregnant.. she felt that there was something moving in her tummy, only two find out she got two months only before she'll deliver the baby.. hehe..

i think it is not at all acceptable. how can this be possible? for be initially for few weeks its not possible to guess. but for some synptoms if someone dgoes to doctor, it can be predicted i mean.

I can believe it up to the fifth month when the baby starts kicking. And in some girls, they still have their periods or their absence of periods is because they were too thin. However once you reach the fifth month, and the baby kicks, then you will know, but a lot of the time before that they think the movement inside is just hunger. I did not know until I was in my fifth month, because I was very underweight and then the baby started to move.

I think there are more people that don't realize they are pregnant than we could imagine. Sometimes, I think it's denial, because they don't know who the father is, he's abusive, or a whole other set of reasons. Other times, I think it's just because people are so busy that they really don't notice the changes. One of my friends had her monthly all the way through the pregnancy. She knew she was pregnant, though, because of the morning sickness. But if it was someone who didn't have morning sickness, and they were already overweight, they might not notice the changes as much. I didn't start showing until Christmas when I was pregnant with my son, and he was born February 1st! I knew right away I was pregnant, though, even though no one else could tell.

Everyone's body is different and every pregnancy is different. I do believe to a certain extent that you can be pregnant for a time and not know it. My very close friend did not know she was pregnant until she was nearly 6 months along. She did not have any of the normal symptoms of pregnancy. She continued to have her period for a few months and then when she didn't it wasn't much of a red flag because she has never had a regular cycle. She did not begin gaining weight until she was nearly 5 months along. This was her first clue however. She couldn't figure out why she was gainig weight and couldn't loose it. Now, the women who claim they didn't know they were pregnant until they went into labor --- that is unbelievable.

i have a friend who is irregular and got her period only about 3 or 4 times a year. she was not that thin but also not fat so you won't suspect pregnancy even if she looks like she's putting on a few pounds. then, one day, she had a really heavy flow and ignored it the first few hours. but when the stomach pain grew wilder, she decided to have it checked for any complications only to find out that she lost a four month old baby..

I have heard about this! I've read about women who go to the ER with severe stomach pain only to find out that they're in labor, and they had no idea that they were even pregnant. I've personally never known anyone who has that experience. I have however known a handful of women who miss a period, take a pregnancy with a positive result, and go to the doctor assuming that they're only 1 or 2 months along to find out that they're in their second or third trimester! Your body changes so much when you're pregnant, so it's hard to imagine how you possibly couldn't know that you're pregnant. But every pregnancy is different for every woman, and I guess some women's bodies just don't react the same as others.