Doctors told Belinda Waite of Bampton, UK that she had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. After she went into labor and three hours before her daughter was born, Waite was informed that she was instead pregnant:
Link | Photo: Nick Irving/Daily Telegraph
Miss Waite was staying with her partner Wyane Boyles, 28, when she unexpectedly went into labour.
Their baby daughter Louise Boyles was born at home weighing 8lb 14oz by Wayne's mum Syliva.[...]
On February 6th - the night before Louise was born - Miss Waite again went to hospital with pains throughout her body.
At 10pm doctors confirmed she was three months pregnant - in fact she was nine months pregnant - and Louise arrived four and a half hours later at 2.30am.
Link | Photo: Nick Irving/Daily Telegraph
Your ignorance is painful.
This scenario is not that terribly uncommon and it happens most often right here (USA). Want to take a wild guess as to why?
Because we're the fattest, unhealthiest, least doctor checkup making industrialized nation on the planet.
Interestingly, things that might help that situation would be: Healthcare for all, national standards on preventative care and checkups, and an approach to healthcare costs where the largest benefit would be keeping everyone healthy (national) vs the approach where the largest benefit would be keeping everyone on drugs (private).
@Johnny Cat - I c wat u did there ;)
Maybe she suffers from irregular cycles so never thought anything was going on when she never got a period. Or maybe she still spotted and thought it was her period.
Shame on those doctors though. It's like the first thing any doctor I've ever been to has wanted to do is for me to give a urine sample to see if I was pregnant.
Why that didn't happen with her though *shrugs*
How does that change anything? Finding out you're pregnant this close to birth is still unusual. It's not like Neatorama posts these stories because they don't have explanations.
Two of my dad's sisters were told when they were teenagers that they could never have children. Shortly after an adoption fell through, the older of them found out she was pregnant. With her second child, though, she didn't find out until she was six months along. She thought she was just getting fat and was cranky about it.
Doctors aren't always right, but that doesn't mean they're always wrong, either. I mean, no one is right all the time. Does that mean no one should trust you?
I also can't believe how many commenters take it as given that a woman's cycle is this hard and fast thing that happens every month no matter what to every woman. My own sister almost never has hers, but I do consistently.
So, I think I covered all the insanity here. Open and obvious fat hate, complete misunderstanding of women's bodies (probably has a lot to do with the fact that women learn to think of their periods as gross and private, and so never talk about them), and distrust of the medical establishment. Oh, right, socialism, bad. *eyeroll*
Anyway calling her fat is pretty pointless. I've also heard of cases where someone was on drugs and never gained weight during their pregnancy.
I also knew a girl who probably only gained like 5 lbs during 5 months and didn't realize she was pregnant and had been seeing a doctor for being sick the entire time and he didn't know either. She was pretty petite and had been working out the whole time so she maintained her weight without gaining until she was pretty far in.
You cannot be 3 - 4 months pregnant and not feel the changes going on. Everything changes, from your appetite to your sleeping needs, to the way your clothes fit. And yes, your periods!
These women are women who have sex without contraception and just want to deny the consequences of their lifestyle as long as they can. It's all a bunch of twaddle, these stories about not knowing.
lulu, you are wrong. I think it's pretty reasonable for a woman to now know she's pregnant. I have never been pregnant and have no idea how it should or would make me feel. It's possible to have symptoms (nausea, sore breasts, etc) to other illnesses that that could be seen as symptoms of pregnancy. But they are not, and so if once they were actually signs of pregnancy I think it's reasonable that a woman would think it is connected to another illness rather than assuming it's a pregnancy.
Lastly, just because this woman didn't know she was pregnant does not mean she wasn't using contraception, you are aware that contraceptives are not 100% reliable, right? I bet she was using contraceptives and that is why she never considered that she was pregnant.
Not ok to joke about someone's race (for good reason), but still perfectly fine to make fun of people on their weight.
And to further prove that contraception doesn't always work. My cousin conceived 2 of her children while she was still on birth control.
Could she have been in denial about it? Sure. I mean she did admit that it felt like something was moving around, so many pregnant was in the back of her mind. Who knows.
I know of several attractive college women who ended up with a fat mate, perhaps because the man was a lawyer or a doctor. But how many men marry the obese unless they are desperate? Are women less shallow than men? Or do men have a different evolutionary psychology that is largely visual, but also influenced by society's norms of the moment?
"We done had a baby."
Yes, I am fat and I'm this way b/c I've had a thyroid problem (hypothyroidism if you want to look it up), and PCOS, both of which don't exactly help with weight.
Thanks a bunch for assuming that every fat person is some lazy blob that eats everything bad in sight.
It's amazing. Well, I HAVE been pregnant and I can assure you that no matter how ignorant you think you are, you KNOW something is up. It's not just about the periods, for heaven's sake. You can FEEL the changes in many ways.
Good try, though, with your hopelessly backwards logic. LOL
Anyone that thinks you can easily make it through 9 months without knowing - you are as stupid as this woman. I don't care if you are morbidly obese... there are so many things that happen to your body that it is impossible not to notice. Girls who don't know they are pregnant are just stupid.
True there are a number of things that could have happened to show her and others like her that a pregnancy is happening. There are equally as many thing that present to say that a pregnancy is not the cause of the symptoms.
NONE OF US have the authority to create a judgment on her or on anyone else.
Yes I agree that there is an issue with nutrition and exersize EVERY WHERE in the world. Being hurtful is not tough love, it is plain out ABUSE. Just because it was done to you and you turned out "ok" does not excuse this disgraceful practice of hate.
I personally wish her, her baby, all that she loves, and yes even those of you who use hurtful words, finds loving support and health.
Who cares how it happened, its in the past, it happened, its done, move on!