Finding out pregnancy at almost full term.

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I would be interested in hearing about experiences of ladies finding out their pregnant at a very late week.

I'm really not sure how to make that sound less of a magazine article or something but I promise it's not 😆

I have just read on a Facebook page somebody literally finding out they were pregnant the day they gave birth. It blows my mind!

Has anybody or anybody they know gone through this? I honestly don't think I do. I found out at about 4 weeks pregnant and I feel like I had the longest most drawn out pregnancy ever I have friends who found out in month 2/3 but I don't think anyone in 7/8/9!?

The latest I've heard of in someone I actually know is six months. They were travelled and went skydiving and all sorts not realising 😅 I know quite a few stories of people who made it to between four and five months.

There was someone at school where noone else knew until they saw her with a pram, but I'm pretty sure she herself knew. Her and her mum had babies within about three months of eachother. Shocker for mum I'm sure!

I found out at 22 weeks that my second DD was on the way. Her big sister was still a baby and I assumed my lack of periods was due to breastfeeding. They are in their 20s now and have always been best friends.

An ex-colleague found out about 2 weeks before she gave birth. She was a student and (I think from her hints) in an abusive relationship. She was overweight and the placenta was lying funny. I'm sure there's a term for that.

Birth was easy. DC is 15 now.

Someone I work with looked distinctly pregnant for ages, but never mentioned anything. Neither did her husband who also worked there.
The rest of us were always mentioning it to each other. SURELY she's pregnant??? But no-one wanted to say anything out loud.
And then one day she was in floods of tears of shock because she'd discovered she was 8 months pregnant!! Her husband left her (although he returned a year later), insisting it couldn't be his.
They maintain to this day that they had no clue (and the child is now 5 and the actually spitting image of her dad).

I found out at 24 weeks 3 days. To say we were poleaxed is an understatement. I had been training for a half marathon and exercising loads. I noticed I had put on a few lbs. I had changed my contraceptive to the depo and naively assumed that the pregnancy symptoms I was clearly experiencing were side effects of the depo.
it was 16 weeks from the day I found out to the day I gave birth.

I found out with my first at 20 weeks or so. I thought I was pregnant but I had 3 different tests (at different times) at one of those pro-life clinics and they told me they were negative. I realise now that they wanted to make sure I was too late to have an abortion. I was young. Horrible. When I eventually went and got one done at a chemist I was mortified.

I will never believe it's possible for someone who is less than size 20 tbh. Baby moves, how it's possible? I knew lady who found out at 6 months but I personally didn't believe in it. She suddenly gained weight and everyone could clearly see the bump. She told stories about endometriosis, cysts, etc. Im pretty sure she knew...

My cousin found out at 31 weeks, she’d been through a stressful time as her marriage broke up, so she’d whilst she knew she didn’t feel great, she’d put it down to stress. Her periods continued as normal, until the one when she found out she was pregnant!

It blew all of our minds, she’s not the tallest of girls, about a size 18-20 and he was a big baby when born.

Many years ago, used to go to a pub quiz and meet a few other couples, turned up one week and one of the ladies had a newborn - she'd had several kids, was very slim, was waiting for a referral for a suspected ovarian cyst but in the week since we last saw her she'd had a perfectly healthy baby in the bathroom at home - blew my mind!!

We thought a couple next door had a baby in care. Arrived overnight.

No it was their own.
Professionel couple mid 30 well educated good jobs.
I saw her sunbath in the garden 3 weeks before baby was born. I couldn't see anything. I don't blame them having no clue.

They are happily raising their not planned st all off to school next year child.

Years ago I knew someone who only found out because she presented at A and E with terrible back pain but was actually in labour.
I'd been to the pub with her at about 6 months and she certainly didn't look pregnant.
She took the pill throughout and had regular withdrawal bleed periods.
It was an odd one. She was young, about 20 so like all of us then didn't have much experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
I still can't get my head round how she couldn't know but 🤷‍♀️

Co worker became a surprise parent, they found out three weeks before the baby arrived, which was two weeks early.
They had been trying to to get pregnant for years, but had pcos, high BMI, and only one or two periods a year.
She thought she was having pains from her cysts.
Crazy part is she and her husband were about to start therapy to deal with not being able to have a baby.

I'm always perplexed by this.
Do these babies lie completely dormant for the entire gestation?
I felt the first 'butterfly' movements by 12 weeks easily.

One of the danger signs is when you haven't felt any movement for a moderate number of hours.

It's so bizarre.

We tried for my DS and we were delighted to discover we were expecting. I was slightly overweight and very disappointed not to show and still have bleeds. The placenta was oddly positioned and if he hadn't been planned, I would have had a surprise pregnancy, so I do believe it can happen. It must be an almighty shock 😲

I felt far less movement with DS than DD, she was all over the place. Bodies are indeed strange things.

A friends sister.
Slim, didn’t look at all pregnant. Had a dd already so knew what being pregnant was like. Went to hospital with back pain and an hour later had a second DD. They were over the moon but in complete shock. She was even having monthly periods, just lighter. Complete and utter surprise. They luckily had been saving for a holiday and used that money for the pram and baby things.

An ex colleagues teen daughter went to hospital with back ache and came home with a baby, but I think she knew and was in denial. To this day she’s refusing to say who the father is (baby is about 20 now) and I suspected that it was likely an abuse case sadly. That was a whole host of weird.

When I had my second DC I was in hospital and a 14 year old girl had gone to A&E with stomach cramps and was in labour. It was a shock for her parents and the girl who claimed not to have known. Later it transpired she had known but only about 6 weeks before birth. The parents were scrambling around trying to get baby things for baby to go home. They lived close to my sister and she gave them a few baby things she had in her loft. Her baby was small at a little under 4lbs and had to stay in SCUBU. Baby's Dad got involved and both sets of grandparents brought DC up whilst the child's parents went back to school. They young Mum went to uni and got married to child's Dad several years later. They never had any more DC. DC stayed with grandparents until she was 8 or 9 then went to live with it's parents.

My mum didn’t know she was pregnant with me until she was 5.5 months. I’ve seen photos of her on the beach from the time and she does not look pregnant at all! She was always very slim and said she had no other symptoms. She put down the missing periods due to her father passing away very suddenly and being in shock/grief.
Whereas when I was pregnant with my son I had awful sickness from about 3 weeks! I certainly knew I was pregnant.

I guess all bodies are different. So it can happen but I am always surprised at the “I didn’t know I was pregnant until I was in labour” stories from take a break magazine too!

My cousin’s partner - she’s quite large and also has irregular periods. She generally felt normal but at around the 8 months mark she started to feel exhausted and slept a lot, and also had swollen ankles so went to the GP. Turns out she was pregnant!

I know someone who believed she couldn't conceive - had already and two DC by IVF.

On holiday, she was in the beach moaning a about how fat she was, that she looked pregnant and her husband with dawning realisation said....yes you do actually!

I had a colleague who this happened to. She thought she had appendicitis but no it was a baby!! She didn’t look pregnant at all and she was having periods. The dr called it a cryptic pregnancy.

My cousin didn't know until about 6 months with her daughter. She has PCOS and was quite overweight and has an anterior placenta.
At sixth form there was a girl who gave birth at home full term. Nobody knew she was pregnant. She was quite big and always wore baggy clothes. I suspect she was in a level of denial. Especially as we were all training to be peer sex educators.

A girl I went to school with went on a night out, felt very ill during the evening and headed to the hospital and had a baby that night! She had no clue she was pregnant. Was quite young at the time and around mid size. Had seen her a few weeks before and she looked like had put a bit of a weight on but did not look nearly full term. The photos put up on SM the next morning were quite something

These threads always terrify me 😅 it would be my absolute worst nightmare to find out I’m pregnant and too far along to do anything about it! The people who take it in their stride are far better than me!

My nail lady kept moaning that she was getting fat, she didn’t look pregnant but had put on a bit. Not loads - maybe went from a size 10 to a 16? But she genuinely just looked sort of chubby rather than pregnant. Then she said she found out at 6 months due to going to the doctors for something else and needing a test! She was honestly so shocked and scared, I really felt for her

My mum was five month’s gone with me before she knew. I never asked her why she didn’t know. I vaguely know someone whose own mother only knew she was pregnant when she gave birth. That, apparently was quite a shock phone call to the daughter! But how it can happen, other than maybe being very overweight, I don’t know. I don’t know about this particular woman’s weight, but my mum had never been overweight.