" They checked and evaluate , and I was due in seven weeks ! I was n’t sure if I had want to be a mamma ever , let alone in seven weeks . "
Recently weaskedtheBuzzFeed Communityfor their “I didn’t know I was pregnant” stories, and they came through with their wild experiences. Here are 27 people who didn’t know they were pregnant until SUPER late into their pregnancy.
We also used a few response fromthis Reddit thread .
1.“It happened during a really bad time in my life. There were so many guys I was sleeping with, and none of them cared about me at all. I was drinking the second I woke up, and I started smoking pot more than was healthy. I was also developing a bit of a crack dependency. My life was a hazy mess. I wasn’t taking care of myself at all, and when the morning sickness and all that started, I figured it was just a consequence of my unhealthy lifestyle and didn’t connect it to the fact that I was having lots and lots of unprotected sex. I somehow figured the reason my stomach was getting bigger was because I had been eating more lately. Didn’t even notice when I started to feel kicks. One day I was taking a bath when my water broke.”
" Even then I did n’t have it away what was happening . The contraction began super quickly after . I was terrified . I still did n’t connect the dots . I thought I was function to die . I started screaming and crying . Keep in mind , this was at like 11:00 in the night , so it was a somewhat big deal . An old woman whose apartment was across the hall from mine come over . sob , I tell her that I was dying and describe what was happen . She explicate that I was move over birth . I was appalled . She called over her friend , who had been a accoucheuse . She and her supporter mildly helped me , and after seven hours of labor , I present birth to a girl . Twenty twelvemonth afterward , the daughter is in college and I have my life together . "
— Anonymous
2.“Not me, but my brother-in-law’s father and his wife. … She went to the hospital having abdominal pains, thinking it was kidney stones. Turns out she was in labor and had a healthy baby girl. The freaky thing is, she thought she couldn’t have kids due to endometriosis and the father had a vasectomy years ago that has apparently reversed itself. The chances of them having a child together had to be wildly low. Miracle baby! The father is about 50 years old and now has a brand new baby to take care of.”
— uracil / Angelousy
3.“It happened to a girl at the high school my mom taught at. She… thought she had just been gaining weight over the holidays, and all the weird feelings she was feeling were connected to that. And she said her periods were always super irregular anyway. Her water broke in the middle of dinner with her parents and her mom was the one who realized what was happening. I imagine that was quite a scene.”
— axj66
4.“A friend of mine went into labour in her bosses' office during her annual review. Had no idea at all she was pregnant. I wish I had been a fly on the wall when her boss called her husband…”
— [ deleted ]
5.“Not me, but my mom (pregnant with my little sister). She was on the pill and didn’t have a single symptom of pregnancy. She was getting what shethoughtwas her period every month, but later learned that it was a small placenta bleed or something that mimicked her period pattern. She has always had back problems, so when it was feeling worse than usual for a while, she goes to the doctor to see what’s going on, and that’s when he asks her if she’s knows that she’s seven months pregnant. That was a BIG no. We figured we had at best two months to prepare for a baby, which was relatively easy since she’s done it before. Sister came early, I mean, early as in three weeks after my mom found out she was pregnant, she was giving birth. She came so fast that she even got to go to her own baby shower, at a whole nine days old.”
— u / erin_cc
6.“I assumed that you couldn’t get pregnant from anal but it turns out that if sperm is near the vagina and accidentally spread to vaginal canal, you can. I learned this the hard way… I didn’t think that the vomiting and weight gain were related to a pregnancy since I hadn’t had PIV sex for more than a year. I learned what happened at a standard check-up. I was five months along!”
7.“My hairdresser was 15 at the time and was drinking, smoking, eating like normal and going to the gym for an hour every evening. She hadn’t had any sex ed so when she went home one day from the gym she complained of severe stomach cramps and her mum took her to the doctor, who informed her she was in labor, and my hairdresser had to ask what labor is. I’ve seen a photo of her two weeks before her daughter was born, absolutely flat stomach and no sign of showing. Apparently she was bleeding each month so she thought she was having her period like normal. It’s made me so paranoid ever since. I would never have believed that she couldn’t tell at all if not for that photo. You really can’t.”
8.“This happened to a friend of mine years ago. She was in her early twenties and a bit larger. She had irregular periods. She came to visit me one day and kept telling me her stomach felt strange…like it felt ‘hard’ and it felt like gas pains, but ‘squirmy.’ She wondered if she was pregnant. She showed me her stomach, and even though she was on the larger side, her stomach was pretty flat. I told her I didn’t think she was pregnant. Two days later, her mother rushed her to the hospital with severe abdominal pains…turned out that she was in labor and within minutes gave birth to a perfect, full-term, full-sized baby girl! Perfectly healthy despite no prenatal care!”
— uranium / deanie1970
9.“This was in the late 1970s, early ’80s. I was only in my teens/early twenties and multiple doctors had told me I would have a hard time getting pregnant. My periods were very irregular, plus some other issues. Keep in mind I was young and could only afford low-cost gyno clinics at the time so many different doctors and interns. They would not prescribe birth-control because of other conditions, assuring me I would not get pregnant. So I am 20 years old, suddenly have an insatiable appetite (I would get so hungry I was nauseous, NOT morning sickness), and am gaining weight. Of course I think it is because I am eating so much! Finally went to the doctor and discovered I was five months pregnant (not even on my radar, and home pregnancy tests did not exist at that time). Drank and smoked for the whole five months that I didn’t know I was pregnant.”
" Gave birthing to a healthy 8 Ezra Pound 13 troy ounce baby boy with no health issue , and my flow after gestation were like clockwork — every 28 days . "
10.“Sorry if this is TMI, but here goes. I didn’t get any morning sickness or cravings or anything for some reason, and obviously, I got bigger, but I was recovering from an illness that caused me to lose quite a bit of weight, so I thought I was just gaining a healthy amount. The only thing was, I started needing to pee constantly. It used to be that I had a HUGE bladder and could make it super super long with needing to go at all. But now I would have to get out of bed to urinate, then five minutes later I’d be tucked in and cozy, only for my bladder to rapidly fill up with a fresh load. And this wasn’t just cute normal-human-being tinkling either, this was some Niagara Falls shit. I started just peeing in my bed — all night, every night — because that was the only way I could get some sleep at all. That’s when I decided to see a doctor. Guess what I found out? I was six months pregnant. Six!!! Well, that was in July. My wonderful daughter was born last week.”
11.“A friend … was 40, and had been told by doctors since she was 16 that she’d never be able to get pregnant. She and her boyfriend had considered adopting, but then her boyfriend got cancer and passed away soon after, and she didn’t want to be a single mom. She was working as a police officer, and she was very petite and fit, but she wound up quitting that job in favor of a desk job. Apparently, when celebrating the new job, she had a one-night stand. She didn’t really bother practicing safe sex and never had, knowing she couldn’t conceive anyway. She gained a few pounds in the new few months, but put it down to having a less active job. Five months after that one-night stand, she’s lying on her sofa after a workout, just wearing sweats and a sports bra and watching TV. Her stomach feels weird, so she looks down andsees something moving under the skin.”
" She rushed to an urgent tutelage thinking she had a parasite , and twist out to be five months pregnant . "
12.“My friend’s friend … was on birth control and everything. She broke up with her boyfriend and lived life normally; still went to hockey practice, had her period, no morning sickness, and even the stick result was negative. She did have stomachache a couple times and she went to the doctor twice — both doctors said she had a stomach ulcer. One time she was taking a bath and she went into labor in the bathtub, and just like that she gave birth to a baby girl.”
— u / spicyfriednoodles
13.“My sister-in law was driving her friend home from a party because her friend started to have severe stomach cramps. Her friend gave birth in the front seat of my sister-in law’s car! She never knew she was pregnant. … She never noticed any unusual weight gain and I’m assuming she was on birth control or something that would have normally stopped her periods. The funny thing is that she has had a child before. It’s hard to believe but it really does happen.”
14.“I only get my period twice a year, usually consistently in April and October. So I wasn’t ‘missing’ any periods and I wasn’t late. I didn’t have any other pregnancy symptoms; not a single one. One random September afternoon I was reading in bed and I felt movement in my stomach. I thought I had a tapeworm! Went to the doctor to see if they could get it out and surprise surprise, I’m 26 weeks pregnant 😳 I do NOT want children and I take precautions to avoid it, I even had an IUD in at the time! I should not have even been able to get pregnant, and now I’m three months away from having a son.”
" Well as luck would have it I am very blessed to experience in a state where they do not restrict women ’s rights whatsoever , at any full stop during the pregnancy . This was in 2019 and I have no declination .
Oh , I did grow breast milk that leak out of me for the come after two months , though ! I had to stuff my bra with toilet newspaper because i was lactate all the elbow room through my shirt . "
— notjessicasmile
15.“I had my tubes tied after my second baby. I always had erratic periods and did a poor job of keeping track of them, especially when I knew I couldn’t get pregnant again. I started having some stomach discomfort and was noticeably bloated but neither were bad enough to see a doctor, more odd than concerning. When the weird sensation in my stomach didn’t go away after a couple of weeks I realized it may have been a baby kicking instead of gas. Took a test and it was almost instantly positive. Went to the doctor to figure out what we were dealing with and I was 18 weeks along with a 10-month-old baby at home.”
" Ladies , do your enquiry and know the risks with your chosen method of birth control ! I was too flustered to ask interrogative sentence about my tube tie because my second was an emergency C - plane section six week early on . I bid I had fuck to necessitate to have my subway remove rather of tied ! "
— glamfish500
16.“I had two pregnancies before where I missed my period, had nausea, started showing, and I miscarried both. On my third pregnancy (where I didn’t yet know I was pregnant) I had a period — just not as heavy — and I just took it as finally my period was changing. I had no morning sickness, didn’t show, and I lost weight. During this time, my wisdom teeth were coming in and my insurance took three months to approve and so I was popping Vicodin like it was candy. I finally got my wisdom teeth removed in June. During the fourth of July weekend, I went out with my sister to the club and I had two drinks and to the bathroom and got really sick and throw up. My sister thought it was strange because I wasn’t a lightweight, and I wasn’t sure why I threw up. At the end of July, I finally missed my period I took a pregnancy test and it was positive.
" I made a doctor ’s date and when she demand me when was the last time I had a steady stop , I could n’t really recall , so she schedule an ultrasonography to find out the sexuality and how far along I was . She was thinking about four months . Four Clarence Day later when I had the sonography , they said they could n’t see the sexuality because I was further along that what they think and the child had their stage crossed . She tell me I was almost eight months and my due date was Sept 25th . I called my dad and stepmom to tell them I was meaning , and they said ' Oh how far along ? One to two months ? ' and I said ' Almost eight . ' They said , ' No way , we just take care you last week ! ' Well on Sept 11th , I started have stomach pains and live on to the infirmary and was in project . I gave nativity to a healthy babe male child who was 17 inches long and 6.2 lb . … My son is now 20 and the only pregnancy I was able-bodied to comport to term . I call him my miracle and the reason I call myself a mother . "
— annapena
17.“My periods were never normal so skipping one wasn’t worrisome. I had felt pretty shitty one time though, so I took a pregnancy test that came back negative. Tried again the following month when I still felt like crap (and still period-less), again negative. Third month and the test shows positive. I go to my first OBGYN appointment and was told I should expect to see a small sac on this ultrasound. Imagine my surprise when a fully developed baby waved at me. Turns out, I was 16 weeks along. Baby boy then decided to make his grand entrance at 29 weeks, so we joke my pregnancy was three months long.”
18.“A hard partying girl I went to college with found out when she was six months pregnant. She had been used to not having her cycle because of her diet and all the party drugs so it didn’t occur to her to take a test. According to the rumors, she had found out and attempted to schedule an abortion and the doc laughed at the fact that she was waaaaay past that point. Her son was born completely healthy!!! Totally typical teenage boy now! Thank the Gods.”
— mlent0330
19.“I was a lighting tech on cruise ships, and I started seeing a guy from another country. My period has never been consistent so when I didn’t have one for awhile, I didn’t think anything of it. My diet and lifestyle had also changed since joining the ship so I figured it was just messing up my system a little and I was losing weight from working so much. My contract ended and me and the dude are long-distance. I was getting ready to join my next ship in Asia when his contract on our ship was ending. As soon as he left the ship, he disappeared. He didn’t message me, didn’t video chat and blocked me on everything and I had absolutely no idea why.
" So I join my next ship , define to just draw a blank this guy . One day , my stomach felt unearthly . Something was conceited . Pregnancy was a minuscule view but I was certain that could never bump to me , I was so careful ! breadbasket continues to feel weird so one day while I have some sentence off in Thailand , I find a drug entrepot and grease one’s palms a examination . I took it the next morning and it was IMMEDIATELY overconfident ! As this was the first trial I ’ve ever taken , I go to the ship doctor . They tested me and , yep , it was true . They arrange for me to have an ultrasound the next Clarence Day in Singapore because you ’re only allowed on a ship up until 24 weeks . At my sonography , this babe is already an existent baby . The doctor estimated I was about five months in ! So I forthwith quit smoking and drinking , call my parents and try on to get ahold of dude . He snub me completely and I had to have a mutual friend tell him . He did n’t require anything to do with me or us . By this clock time , I was n’t upset by that . Trying to figure out hold between Canada and Indonesia just sounds complicated . I was really implicated though because I had been drink and smoking cigarettes * a lot * before I discover out . I felt unbelievably guilty . I stayed on the ship another two week and then come home and affect in with my parents because I had give up my apartment when I join the ship . Well , I had my son in 2019 and I ’ve NEVER been so in love ! ! He ’s the good thing to ever go on to me and I amply think this is how everything was supposed to make out ! He ’s voguish , sweet , adorable and hilarious and no health complications from my partying which I ’m so grateful for ! All in all , worked out pretty damn well ! "
20.“I found out I was pregnant in October of 2020, not just recently pregnant…seven months pregnant as a result of a nonconsensual act done to me. There was no way I could raise a child with only a few months to prepare, so I looked into adoption and have an open adoption now with my son and his dads. It could have gone so terribly wrong but I am so blessed to be able to be in his life. I did the best that I could in the situation I was in. My boy is now almost three and I was just able to give him a half brother with the man I ended up meeting not even a full month after I placed him.”
21.“Missed a period. Took a test. Scheduled an abortion. During the ultrasound prior to the procedure the tech said, ‘Well, you can try Montana, but you’re not getting one here.’ Turns out I was almost six months pregnant but had ‘period-like’ bleeding the first few months. My kid is now in his mid-twenties and has been the greatest joy of my life. I’m hard core agnostic, but I feel like the universe needed this kid to be born for some purpose.”
22.“My grandmother had a ton of extreme mental illnesses (which she did not get treatment for, being a Black homeless woman in the 1960s). She didn’t notice anything — not her period stopping, not her weight gain, not her morning sickness, nothing. When she started labor, she had to give birth on the sidewalk, still not fully realizing what was going on. Fortunately, my grandfather (who had a one-night stand with her but they weren’t really in a relationship) was financially and stable enough to raise the baby, who grew up to be my mom.”
23.“I found out I was pregnant with my second child at seven and a bit months. I had no symptoms, wasn’t showing, and had my period throughout. My subconscious must have known though, because I had a dream where I met a lady who said ‘congratulations on the new baby.’ I woke up, took a test, and here we are. I went for an emergency ultrasound the next day and almost fainted when they told me how far along I was; it was actually the only time in the entire pregnancy that I felt nauseous. In the end, baby was premature which meant the pregnancy felt even shorter — we’d really only known for a couple of weeks when baby arrived. Our older child is an adult who’s already left home so the baby has certainly turned things upside down…six months in and I think we’re still in a bit of shock.”
24.“My cousin … went to hospital with a suspected severe UTI and came out with a baby girl. She had no idea she was pregnant. … Her mum was dying of cancer so thought the stress had stopped her periods. She made a bit of money selling her story to one of those true story magazines.”
— u / jagolovesballs
25.“I was always late and never regular, and was under a ton of stress. My then-fiancé (now-husband) was a full-time student and working full-time. I was working 65+ hours a week, and my grandfather I was close to had passed in the fall of 2011. My husband’s mom had just had a resurgence of her cancer, that spread like wildfire all over her body. So, I was stressed. We were stressed. Not taking care of myself. In April of 2012, I went to the doctor, because something didn’t feel right, and I thought I could be pregnant. (I had taken three at home tests, but they all were negative.) Well, when they went to check to do the ultrasound, the tech stated, ‘Wow! That’s a head!'”
" They checked and measured , and I was due in seven week ! I was n’t sure if I had wanted to be a mom ever , permit alone in seven weeks . My pardner and I talked for a long clock time , and now are going on 15 twelvemonth together , with a happy and HEALTHY 11 - yr - old . We ca n’t have any more tyke , so we are so extremely blessed to have him . "
26.“I had just had two babies pretty much back to back (I only got three months of not being pregnant before getting knocked up again) so not to be too explicit, but I figured my pussycat would get to take a nap, if you know what I mean. Then I started throwing up and stuff, which I thought was just cause I was a pediatric nurse and it was flu season, so I was seeing a whole lot of contagious kids. Then the symptoms weren’t going away. At this point, I kind of knew subconsciously that I was pregnant, but I was unwilling to accept it — not because I didn’t want more kids, but because, like I was saying earlier, I wanted my hole to relax before pushing out another human. After this had been going on for like three months, I saw my doctor, and she told me that there was another bun in the oven. At first, I wasn’t sure how me or my body would handle it, but we pulled it off! My babies are grown now, and in case y’all are wondering, my you-know-what has made a full recovery.”
27.“I didn’t know until I started to feel him. I thought at first it was gas. Until it kept happening. And it was more intense. Mind you, we had been together for over ten years, married for six. At this point I didn’t think we could have kids. Had truly given up. After about two weeks I told my husband this isn’t normal. We need to get a test just to be on the safe side. Turns out I was around seven months pregnant. And a month later my son came early by C-section. Two months early. He is doing great. Growing everyday. We can’t wait to bring him home.”
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