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I found out I was pregnant at 6 months and had my son, roughly, 2 weeks later. I didn't know I was pregnant because I'd put on no weight. I'd just thought It was fat! He wasn't kicking inside, because he has brittle bones and can barely move his legs. I had no sickness no cravings. Also I had a perfect labour with no drugs and it was over in 2 hours!

KTo, did we go to highschool together? Because that happened to a friend of mine whose name starts with a K at AHS. Oh the oddities of the interwebs.

I think KTo's situation is very unique. Most babies, even those born early, move enough to be very noticeable (and very obviously not gas) by (or often well before) 5-6 months along. That is regardless of how big the mother looks to others (no one could tell I was pregnant without being told until I was 8 months along - but boy, did I know!).

I think most women who have this experience are in extreme denial. There may be symptoms that are small enough to be ignored or rationalized as meaning something else. Plus, it so often seems to happen to young women who perhaps feel they "can't" or "shouldn't" be pregnant. The mind can do amazing things, and I can see it convincing a very frightened young woman that there is no problem.

My periods have always been irregular, even on birth control, so if is skipped a few months it didn't really think about it.  When I was in college, I once went 13 months with out my period, but the doctors just said that was how my body worked... Later, when I was pregnant, I didn't start showing until I was about 7 1/2 or 8 months along, but I could definitely feel that I was pregnant. On the other hand, when my sister was pregnant with her first, she didn't feel him moving, almost at all, until she was nearly nine months pregnant. Even then, she just described the feeling as losing her stomach (like when you are on a roller coaster), presumably because the placenta was at the front of her uterus.  So I suppose of you combined both of our situations it is plausible that you could be pregnant with out knowing.  Who knows...

Sometimes the mother has a condition making it impossible to tell by regular standards (missed cycle). I have a Bicornuate uterus and had my cycle clear through the 8th month of my last pregnancy.  If this would have been my only indicator and my first child, I would have never caught it.  As it was, I was 22 weeks when first feeling the baby move; then I knew why I had gained a few lbs.

Sorry folks, I meant to write, "As it was with my 4th pregnancy,  I was......"

Terese

I'M GEMMAS DAD I KNOW ITS HARD TO BELIEVE BUT NO ONE HAD A CLUE ABOUT GEMMA BEING PREGNANT,GEMMA WAS ON THE PILL TWO YEARS AGO WHICH MADE HER BLOODPRESSURE GO SKY HIGH.SHE CAME OFF THE PILL AND STARTED HAVING IRREGULER PERIODS 3 IN 2 YEARS.SHE DIDN'T GAIN MUCH WEIGHT AND HAD NO CRAVINGS.GEMMA WORKS IN A SHOP DOES NOT WEAR BAGGY CLOTHES ALL THE STAFF AND CUSTOMERS ARE ALSO SHOCKED AND CANT BELIEVE IT I DONT THINK SHES EVEN GOT ANY STRETCHMARKS SHE HAD NO PAIN RELIEF AND GEMMA AND PAUL LOVE LITTLE PAUL JOHN TO BITS AND ME AND SUE ARE SO PROUD TO BE GRANDPARENTS.SO NO NEED TO WORRY PAUL JOHN IS VERY WELL LOVED BY ALL.I HOPE THIS AS ANSWERED SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS JEN STRANGE THINGS DO HAPPEN SOMETIMES

Im Gemma's Sister And Its Still A Shock For All Of Us :)

but its a brilliant Feeling To Be An 14 Year Old Auntie Lol

Wow... I actually was watching a show on Discovery Health Channel on this exact topic earlier this week. Two of three women were older and they didn't think it was possible to pregnant since they were beggining to be menapousal. They didn't gain weight (one was already on the heavier side) and she was actually pregnant with twins. I believe only one of them made it. The other simply had no idea and gave birth in her bathroom and the third one was young but didn't show any signs either. Even when she was starting early labor, she cofused it for a tumor that she had on her back early on in life that had to be removed. She thought the pain was another tumor.