Woman dressed as bumblebee gives birth on hen night without knowing she was preggers

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I'm glad the baby is okay, but what a numpty.

bod, she explains in the article that she had no symtoms and had continued to have her period.

she didn't put on weight. she didn't stop having periods. every other symptom of pregnancy (sickness, indigestion, sore boobs, surging hormones, tiredness) are things you can get all the time anyway. it's unusual but it does happen.

and, as sheherazade says - she didn;t have those symptoms anyway.

I know someone who was on the pill and had her regular "periods" (breakthough bleeding, but you know what I mean) for months until the other symptoms kicked in at 5 months (like enormous stomach) and she had it checked out.
I also knew a teenager who swore that she never realised that she was pregnant (was quite overweight, so the bump didn't really show and I suppose that periods are irregular in a lot of teenagers).
I'm a bit that they got away without the horrible and unmistakable symptoms that I always get.

And thinking about it, my Dad just told me that a friend of his has just found out that she's 5 months pregnant. She's an elite athlete and didn't have periods. The only symptomn was that her race times were going down and she decided to get herself checked out because she was concerned about her form. I gather it came as quite a shock and she is struggling to come to terms with it.

oh right. fair enough. i didn't know that could happen. presumed that the period always stopped and if it didn't most women who had morning sickness would be suspicious anyway.
live and learn.

Even if you have no 'pregnancy symptoms', how can you not feel the baby move and kick?!?

Sorry, I just don't get this 'oops, we have a baby, didn't know I was pregnant' thing.

The woman in the DM had her baby at 26 weeks though, right? And the people that I knew found out at 5 months. At that stage, if it's your first baby, you might not have had much movement. My Mum had a lot of "wind" until she realised that it must have been me wriggling around. Beyond 5 or 6 months I would find harder to believe (which is why I'm a bit more ) about the teenager that I knew.

Kicks start at 4 months, though. 26 weeks is exactly 6 months (half of 52 weeks = 1 year).

She must have felt kicks by then. I don't understand how she didn't know she was pregnant.

am 4 months and can just feel movement now, feels like wind though.

I worked with agirl who went into labour without knowing she was pg.
She never ;ooked it either.

but I bet if you don't know you're pg you may not really be aware of the kicks - I'm sure most women recognise the kicks, because they know they're pregnant and so are feeling for them.

With DS2 although I knew I was pg, because of the position he was in I rarely felt kicks until after 30+ weeks, I felt movements though , but quite honestly if I hadn't known I was pg I may not have realised!!! (oh and the enormous bump PMSL_)

I would put TV's remote control on my tummy and laugh as DD kicked it off. So, no, sorry, I find it hard to believe that you may not feel your baby's kicks if you are not expecting them.

My SIL had a baby 3 months before I had DS1. She did not know she was pg. I spent the day with her 2 days before the baby was born (full term) and people were stopping to talk to me about my 6 month bump which was very obvious. She was in her size 10's and did not look pregnant in the slightest!
She didnt get any sickness and still had her periods.
Baby was 8lb as well. I honestly dont know where she was hiding in there!!

Also I had an anterior placenta with ds2 and didnt feel anything at all for 5 months!

"Kicks start at 4 months". Really? In all cases? I didn't feel anything until nearly six months first time round (and if I hadn't known I was pregnant it would have been later than that before there was anything strong enough for me to think "my, I wonder what this is?", and could feel movement at 14 weeks second time round. I have plenty of other RL friends who didn't feel anything until nearly six months, either.

Assuming that all women have exactly the same experience of pregnancy as you do is unwise. You presumably didn't have regular bleeding; some other women do. You presumably had a noticeable bump; some women don't. You felt strong kicks; some other women don't.

It's possible that FAQ, and I, and other women here who didn't feel kicks at four months, are all lying to you for some reason, I suppose. But it's also possible that we aren't, and that it's not the case that she must have felt something by 26 weeks.

I said pregnant women start to feel movement at four months. Which is the reality.

I'm having it hard to believe you didn't feel any movement when 6 months pregnant - at the end of your second trimester.

And I didn't say FAQ is lying, I said I find it hard to believe she didn't feel anything at 30 weeks.

Take a chill pill fgs.

Well, you said this other woman must have felt kicks by 26 weeks. Which, unless you know something specific about her, implies that you think all pregnant women must have felt kicks by then. Therefore if they say they didn't they can't be telling the truth, because they must have done .

I am impressed at the fine distinction between "I think you are lying" and "I find it hard to believe you". Even more impressed at "I find it hard to believe any of you, even though you agree with one another, because my DD used to kick the remote control off my tummy".

I had an anterior placenta and was in and out of hospital for monitoring because I never really felt any kicks.

I had the morning sickness though, my Gawd I had the morning sickness!!

I read it as her friend was dressed as a bumble bee?

poor woman what a horrible shock for her, and the worry of having such a preemie baby on top of that. best wishes to them all.

Sometimes I feel the baby kick inside me.....and then I remember I'm most definitely not pregnant.

That would suggest that digestive rumbles feel like baby kicks, wouldn't it?

god, yeah, cadelaide. a few months after having dd i had the Most Enormous Panic when i felt a baby kick inside me. absolutely unmistakeable. except i wasn't pregnant, so it wasn't.

actually there have been a couple of threads on here, loads of us have felt those 'kicks' when there's no baby. freaky.

My 21yo dd has a bumblebee outfit she likes to wear to fancy dress parties. I shall tell her to throw it out at once - you can't be too careful!!!

Seriously, I wish both mother and baby well, he looks v cute in the photo I saw.

I can't help feeling insanely jealous of women who manage to breeze through without even wishing they are pregnant - obviously this poor woman and her baby are having a hard time now, but I can't get to five weeks pregnant without barfing so I am very envious of those who can not only sail through, but not look like the Good Year Blimp either