A champion of understatement.

They should have named the baby Sue.

This title is becoming all too common these days. Perhaps this is due to the current state of the economy as well as the fact that we're coming up on a presidential election...

I really don't understand how a woman can be pregnant and not know. Not that far along anyway.

I realize that the boy was born 14 weeks premature but that still puts her at 26 weeks and the baby is most definitely movin' and-a groovin' inside her body....or should have been anyway....

Regardless, I am glad to hear that mom and baby are doing well.

Wait...wait, wait. This is entirely too unbelievable. The Brits wear bumblebee costumes to bachelorette parties?

Maybe with all the moving and grooving she just thought that her stomach was growling or something. Which could explain why she ate alot and fed the baby. lol, i dunno. But yea i'm glad to hear they are doing well also. Good thing she seemed to maintain herself in some kind of good health, for owen's sake.

It happens - usually to ladies of larger proportions.

Similar circumstance occurred with one of my parent's neighbours. She was heavily overweight and that had, as it often does, messed with her menstrual cycle. It wasn't unusual for her to go for many months at a time without *ahem* falling to the Communists as I believe the vernacular has it.

She went in for a routine surgery (gallstones, I think) and it turned into a caesarian. Which came as a surprise to all concerned.

Women who normally have irregular periods can mistake a pregnancy for a GI issue, as said by Rambo2020. I know it seems odd, but it's actually pretty common.

Whose vernacular is that?

Crude, unpleasant people. Not the sort I'd normally associate with.

The kind of people who'd say She's got the painters in. Or it's rag week. You know the sort.

And here, for your reading pleasure, is the full list of menstruation euphemisms.

How long tho, would you put aside these "stomach" issues or "female" issue(missed or irregular) periods before you go to the doc. I can't understand not knowing either. Having done it three times myself. I know it happens. It just seems weird to me. Anyway, good that she and baby are doing well.

Noooo freakin' way you can mistake the movement of a fetus as your stomach growling.

Yeah, but by the looks of her, she wasn't that large....

I just can't wrap my head around this and sway more on the side of believing that they are either in SERIOUS denial or SERIOUSLY uneducated.

that is a pretty funny way of putting it.

Have you ever felt it, though? You don't start feeling the movement of the baby until around 20 weeks, and for a first time mom (I'm just guessing she was... I didn't see it in the article) it doesn't feel like a baby moving. After all, you've got nothing to compare it to. It feels suspiciously like your stomach rumbling, or just like a little fluttering in your belly.

For me, in the last 3 months or so it started to feel a lot more specific, and I could distinguish specific movements like a kick, a punch, or the baby rolling.

First time mums also often don't "show" until pretty late in the pregnancy, compared to women who have already had a baby.

I don't understand carrying a baby to term and not knowing, but I can see how she might not have known at 26 weeks...

It would be bizarre if that woman who rode around on a bicycle in a giant vagina suit gave birth in that suit, but I think any good doctor would make her take it off.

Yes, I have had two children so I know very well what it feels like.

I don't know, I would think that a 2 lb child inside a cramped space like a uterus would not (and never did to me) feel like a tummy growl.
In the beginning, yes. Fluttering in the lower abdomen area. 26 weeks in? No.

I just find it hard to comprehend.

I'm just sayin'.

I have two kids, and I remember what it felt like when they moved and kicked. Interestingly enough, now that there is no chance that I am pregnant, I still sometimes feel weirdness in my belly that I would swear is a baby kicking. I have felt this on and off for a few years (and yes, I am a plus-size woman).

I can see in the early stages...16-20 weeks where it would feel like "gas" or something. But by 26 weeks it is no longer gas like. It starts being foot like, fist like, head pushing into your pelvis like. I remember the first time I felt my eldest move. I wasn't very far along at all. It felt like buzzing, and it happened at the same times everyday. With my son it was more of that "fluttery" "gas" feeling. I don't normally feel those things. It would have me wondering. But the biggest thing would be my belly getting rounder.