Aug. 3, 2005 - How could you not notice......
A few weeks ago I was out to dinner with my girlfriends when one of them suddenly said,
"OMG the weirdest thing happened!"
"What?" we asked
"Well today my brother called me to tell me that our family friend Jane was in hospital. She is about our age, 22. I was really worried and asked him why and he said "She's having a baby". I told him that's impossible because I had seen her about a month ago and she had said nothing about being pregnant. "That's because she didn't know either". I asked him what the hell he was talking about. Apparently Jane had gone to hospital at about 11am this morning complaining of terrible period pain. It was so bad she could hardly do anything. She usually got pretty bad period pain but this was way worse than usual. The doctor examined her and then explained that it wasn't period pain but contractions. She was in labour. How could she be in labour when she didnt even know she was pregnant."
We were all sitting there with our jaws on the floor thinking
"HOW COULD SHE NOT KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT???"
"Well the thing is, she is quite overweight".
"How overweight?"
"Overweight enough that she didnt notice she was pregnant".
Apparently she had gone 8 and half months into a pregnancy without noticing anything. There were a few things like a funny tummy for a while, but she thought it was bug. She had put on some weight but she thought that was just because she was eating so much. She didn't know why she was eating so much, she just figured she was hungry. Her period had been pretty irregular but that wasn't unusual because she was overweight and it hadn't been regular in years.
Fortunately, she and her boyfriend have been together for a while and have talked about having a family together. Not even an Aussie version of Vegas would have been quick enough to marry these two before the baby was born.
So umm yeah...SUPRISE. Next time you have a stomach bug, you just think carefully about whether it's actually morning sickness.
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