What is this world coming to?
And I still can't get over women who make it ALL THE WAY TO THE NINTH MONTH of pregnancy, and don't have a clue they're pregnant until the baby's head is popping out.
Besides the fact they need to go on a serious diet, they also must have a very irregular menstrual period to think nothing of a nine-month lapse. They obviously have never been pregnant before, or they have a HORRIBLE memory. Last of all, they would make a lousy detective:
Those kicks? I guess it's gas. Nausea? I guess it's the flu. Needing more sleep? I guess I wore myself out flipping channels on the TV last night. Being more emotional? I guess life is getting to me. Backache? I guess that grocery bag full of ice cream and cookies weighed more than I thought. Swollen ankles? I guess I had too many potato chips and I'm retaining water. Braxton-Hicks contractions? I guess my menstrual cycle has returned.
Goes to show you how some people couldn't put 2 + 2 together if you wrote it on a blackboard. That is, people are HORRIBLE at putting together a big picture.
Yes, the individual symptoms of pregnancy can be INDIVIDUALLY excused, but not the whole lot of them.
It also shows the power of denial -- some people have a lot of faith in birth control, but don't realize just how often it fails.
Matthew
Actually, it is true that it is hard for some women to know they are pregnant. I was watching a show on odd pregnanices on TLC channel last night and this woman was out camping with her boyfriend and suddenly got stomach pains. She felt like she had constipation and had to go so she went to the camp toilet and the stomach pain got worse and then she felt something coming out and screamed for help when she realized it was a baby.
She never knew she was pregant because:
1) Her stomach never got bigger. She was still able to wear her old clothes up until the time that she gave birth. Some women don't even show. When my mother was pregant, no one ever knew that she was with child because she didn't have a bulge in her stomach.
2) This woman never had any sumptoms of pregnancy. She didn't have any food cravings or have nausea or any of the other stuff pregant woman experience. The only symptom she had was swollen feet but she attributed that to her new job where she was standing up a lot with little rest.
3) She never felt the baby kicking inside of her. The doctor said that she probably carried the baby higher up or more in the rear and that explains where she never felt any kicks.
4) Her periods were always irregular. When she was pregnant, she would miss a couple of months of her period but that was not unusual for her. She had light bleeding other months. The doctor said that you can't get your period when you are pregnant but you can sometimes bleed. The bleeding can be mistaken for your period - which is what this woman assumed.
So, yes, it is possible that some woman never knew that they were pregnant (as the woman in last night's TLC show).