RE; the woman who gave birth at McDonalds

and claims she didn't know she was pregnant.

I call bullshit.

What do you think? Is this possible?

that people give birth not realizing (conciously) they were pregenant. I remember reading a story about someone giving birth on a toilet thinking they were having a bowel movement.
Many of these cases are women who are extremely overweight so its not obvious. However, I will acknowledge that there are probably a lot of people who just are in extreme states of denial about their condition but know on some level that they are pregnant. And in some cases it probably is deceptive, but I would not dismiss the claim out of hand, IMO (not familiar with this case)

I will be more open minded about it!

As a mom I just can not imagine not knowing .

Especially if the woman's cycle had been irregular, and if the baby is premature (as this one apparently was), it can happen. Of course, often helped along by the mother having reasons to be in denial.

Incidentally, there's a Scottish folk song (sung by Ewan MacColl) which seems to deal with such a situation:

"Hap and row, hap and row,
Hap and row the feetie o't.
I thought I was a maiden leal,
Till I heard the greetie o't!"

But apparently it does happen. I'm sure we can thank the state of not only healthcare in this country but health education as well.

Yes. But I can't imagine it. Hell, I KNEW I was knocked up before I even missed my period (and I REALLY didn't want to be "with child" at that time). Alien baby made damn sure I knew she was in there long before I pushed her out. Nothing like the feeling of a foot braced on your ribs and a bowling ball head slamming into your nethers to remind you of your guest (I used to poke her and yell "Cut it out!!").

.....more often than you know. It happens all the time.

I also learned you can be grossly overweight, have a half eaten rotting sandwich under one of your breasts and think you are having a heart attack.:scared:


ER doctors have the best stories.

devoted to stories of what they've found in, er, orifices and how they've had to retrieve them.

The stupidity of people (the self-inflicted issues) never ceases to amaze....:crazy:

Some women have bleeding every month during the pregnancy. If they're normally heavy, they just pass it off as weight gain. Plus there is the power of denial. If a woman is into heavy duty, shame based religion, she can deny the whole thing to herself and everyone around her and even believe she's only getting fat while it's normal for women to skip periods once in a while. She might even be on the pill--too late--and think that's what stopped her periods.

I knew a woman like that, a very heavy woman near the age of 40 in the middle of a divorce who'd had a last encounter with her ex 8 1/2 months earlier. She'd chalked up the lack of periods to the amount of stress she was under as a single businesswoman going through a divorce and only found out about the pregnancy during a routine physical two weeks before she gave birth. She was not crazy. She was not abnormal in any way. She just didn't know that extra girth was a baby and what movement she'd felt wasn't gas.