I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant!
Posted by realityrounds on July 5, 2009
During holiday weekends there is never anything to watch on TV. So I channel surf. While channel surfing I came across a show called I didn’t know I was pregnant, on the Discovery Health Channel. Apparently there is an entire series on women who delivery babies when they had no idea that they were pregnant in the first place. Really? This needs to be a TV series? Of course I will start to Tivo this.
What strikes me as odd is that the Discovery Health website is trolling for women to tell their “I didn’t know I was pregnant” story on TV. Some of these women admit to smoking, drinking, and doing drugs during their ignorant pregnancies. Why on earth would anyone want to advertise this? Yuck.
I will try on post on these stories and the misinformation they are spreading to the public.
RR
pinky said
RR I am constantly amazed by the level of exhibitionism our society has reached. It seems like so many folks are putting naked pictures of their birth on the internet and jumping at the chance to do anything reality TV wise. I am hoping reality TV will eventually die like the big hair heavy metal bands of the 80’s and they boy bands of the 90s. But it does seem to be holding on. And I have to admit I have become a biggest loser fan.
realityrounds said
The biggest loser I get. As a matter of fact, I want to be on the show ! Although I ONLY have about 20 pounds to lose. sigh
Victoria said
My favorite part of this show is when the narrorator says (with all the shock and drama he can muster): “and AMAZINGLY she gave birth without an epidural or pain relief of any kind!!! Hilarious. And sad that it’s so shocking…
realityrounds said
Yes, it seems like the narrators act as in an alien just came out of the woman’s body. I can’t wait to watch this.
adella reese said
I have a seventeen year old daughter that gave birth to a 7lb 9oz baby and she had no sypmtoms of being pregnant. We were on vacation in Yosemite Nationtional Park when she became suddenly ill after rock climbing and rapelling one afternoon. I took her to the clinic in the park and her diagnosis was dehydration or a posable kidney infection. After over twenty four hours of severe back pain her father and I drove her to the nearest hospital where we were told that she was in labor and would deliver a 38 week fetus within the next few hours. What a shock!! But we know have a beautiful and haelthy 13 month old grand daughter. I could not believe that a woman could not know that she was carring a child but believe me it does happen. Sincerely, Mother of two in Ohio
Elizabeth said
I’ve seen this show too! It boggles my mind. These women have to be so completely out of touch with their bodies (and reality for that matter) to not realize that a human being is growing inside them.
realityrounds said
Being aware of your own body is key. Could it be denial?
M'Lynn said
After being pregnant, a few years later, I’d occasionally get flutters that felt like a baby moving, and I definitely wasn’t pregnant. I’ve never watched the show, though. (I do know of someone who had it happen. It was a perfect storm of variables, but her baby was healthy.)
realityrounds said
I once had a pregnancy scare when my oldest was 2years old, and my youngest was 5 months old. I swore I felt phantom fetal movements. I have known women who have been pregnant with twins and thought they were singletons, but never a whole pregnancy, yet.
Akiko said
That show makes me howl with laughter at the lies those women tell. Some of them do not seem very smart either so I feel sorry for them. Being mentally ill, morbid obesity or really dumb are reasons for not knowing your pregnant. Otherwise it is denial. The one story where the lady gave birth to twins in the toilter was heartbreaking. One twin died. I cant believe she was left along in a triage room in full labor with twins. I do believe with all of the freaky hormonal stuff that happens when a woman is pregnant that she could disassociate from the event. Those hormones keep us kind of stoned while pregnant and for a good reason. Maybe some women just have a lot more of it. Our hormones are still quite mysterious. No one really knows what triggers actual labor. They baby, the mother, no one really knows for sure.
I love the Biggest Loser. I want them all to win!
R. May said
I don’t think it’s possible without severe mental dissacociation, metal illness, mental retardation or your 12.
I was pregnant for three months before it was official – I KNEW I was preggo even though every test known to man kept coming back negative. Can’t fool a sonogram though.
You know when you’re pregnant – you just do.
mrsculpepper said
and the thing is almost none of them are ever on any birth control….
bap2 said
Oh lord, I’ve seen this. They also have one for “Oh crap! Twins?!”
Alas, my mother is in this group. But I wholeheartedly assure you that we are a very normal, very sane, and very SOBER family:) She was always irregular with her cycles and when she began to gain weight (a total of 12 lbs for the entire pregnancy) they blamed a newly started regimen for her MS (ACTH). She had an inkling something was amiss and scheduled a doctor appointment for X day and I was born at about 34 weeks two days before X at about 4 lbs.
All is fine, I wasn’t fed to the dogs, nor did I have to “detox.” Having caught glimpses of this show, I would hate to be grouped into “those families must be crazy; those kids must turn out to be serial killers.”
Quite the contrary, my mother states that people in her family “just don’t feel pregnant” so I became a serial “pee-on-a-stick”er at the slightest delay of my cycle. She was right! During my pregnancy I never really did feel many symptoms–but at least I knew:)
Phyllis H said
I am just so glad to know that I am not alone in my incredulous reaction to the ignorance and sensationalism reflected in this show. Moreover, the frequency of positive feedback reflected via Google speaks volumes about both the average viewer and the state of popular culture.
darlene said
i like to watch this show but i really dont know how some one can be pregnet and not feel nothing at all.. if any one wants to talk to me my myspace is pimp2by4stud@yahoo.com
realityrounds said
Adella,
Great story. Congratulations on your healthy granddaughter. Amazing.