How could someone not know they're pregnant until they give birth?!?

This happened to my grandmother. She spotted through her pregnancy, so she didn’t think anything of it. As it didn’t happen with her other pregnancy. My whole maternal side of the family has also never experienced morning sickness. She also grew sideways and not forward, so she assumed that she was just getting fat. She also felt no movement, in fact they were about to pronounce it as a miscarriage until the baby started crying. The doctors had been unable to find a heartbeat and the child was only 4.13.

Some people can spot their whole pregnancy and not have signs. Others have non regular periods so think nothing of not having one.

One of the housekeepers where I work didn't find out till she was 6 months. Lucky duck had gained almost no weight gain and had no real signs. I, myself, had no real signs till I started showing as I fall under the irregular period caregory, but I tested every month just to be safe and was trying to concieve.

My cousin had periods during pregnancy & a crazy cycle & was very overweight. She found out when she was 7 months pregnant!

I also used to think that such stories were ridiculous. But a good freeing of mine, a sensible middle-aged woman called Kim, has recently had exactly that happen to her daughter-in-law (a "big" woman!) who was living with her at the time, with no apparent knowledge that she was pregnant. The daughter-in-law said at about 8am: "Kim, what do birth pains feel like?" Less than an hour later her baby was born, in an ambulance outside the hospital to which she had been rushed, no time to transfer her to the birthing suite.

At about 4 months pregnant, a woman begins to feel the baby moving. There's no way that you can convince me that a woman who felt a baby moving inside her for 5 more months would not KNOW she was pregnant.

We were trying to have a baby. I just so happen to see a psychic (a gift from a friend because I do not believe in those sort of things, or at least I didn't until then). Anyway, I asked the psychic if I was going to have another baby. She said "Other than te baby you are carrying right now, no, I do not see you having more children." What? I wasn't pregnant and this perplexed the psychic as she said she saw me having a baby in August (it was March at the time of the reading). She corrected herself and said I will either get pregnant in August or have a baby the following August, but she sees a baby in August. Cool, I thought.

Two days later I went to have a scheduled OBGYN check up and sure enough, the doctor said "You are 16 weeks pregnant". I almost fell off the exam table!! He took out his wheely chart and said "Due date, August 20th". Holy Crap, how could that be. I already had a child, so I KNOW what pregnancy feels like. Yeah, my pants were getting tighter but I thought I was just getting fat. I had not ONE symptom. I had light erratic periods that I attributed to stress.

I got home that day, which was close to Easter. On Easter Sunday, I informed my family and friends that I had a fertilized egg that will hatch in August. It was embarrassing, for sure. But, typical to the pregnancy, the delivery was uneventful with one contraction, one push and he was born in 29 minutes, including a 15 ride to the hospital. I gave birth to a 8lb 12oz healthy baby boy. Amazing. So, women can be pregnant without knowing. It happened to me. Now, could I not know past 16 weeks after feeling movement, no way.

Because sometimes you don’t have symptoms. I didn’t know I was pregnant until almost 5 months when I took a test. I was a size 0 until beyond then and had virtually no symptoms at all.

If they use the oral contraceptive pill then they dont get periods perhaps. So they can't use a lack of period for an indicator for pregnancy.

However, Oral contraceptive pill is not bulletproof usually due to 'poor use' by the patient. If they use it correctly then it is almost bulletproof.

Moreover, u might think that the mother notices her abdomen growing in size? Right? Well with the current obesity epidemic in the West it might be hard to differentiate a pregnant lady from a fat one.

So add those two together and u have an answer.

At the same time some people may be dumb or mentally ill (or both)

I was six months pregnant with my 4th before I knew and I only found out because of an unrelated ER trip.

I was using birth control (VCF and condoms), had periods that might not show up for almost a year, no weight gain. By the time I delivered I had gained 5 pounds.

I did have morning sickness that I chalked up to the flu being passed around for 3 months. Not all women are the same.

Beyond low IQ