Patients who come to the ER in labor and do not know they were pregnant?

[JUSTYSMOM]

Please share some of your stories.

After going through a pregnancy myself, I just can't imagine how someone would not know. I can see if the person has irregular periods. It it may be tough to pinpoint exactly when they got pregnant. I can even see how some women don't realize they are pregnant for 3-5 months. But to go through an entire pregnancy and NOT know- I just don't get it!

Don't they feel the baby move? My son kept me up many a night kicking me. In addition, my belly was huge! Even if the girl has a small belly, she still must know that she had sex & hasn't gottten a period, right?

(sigh) Maybe it is ignorance on their part? Or could it be plain denial? I just don't get it. Please enlighten me.

[babynurselsa, RN]

Along a similar thread. We were called to attend a drop in delivery one day. Mom states she was only about 7 months along, no PNC. Complete on arrival. She then proceeds to pop out 10+ pound "28 weeker" with peeling skin and mec.

It seems her and daddy had only known each other for about 7 1/2 months. :rotfl:

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

Y'all are making me nervous with these stories of vas deferens growing back together.

My story with my last child is that I thought I was simply experiencing more irregular periods since I'd been having them for about a year and was in, I thought, perimenopause. 36 days since my last period I decided for some reason to take a pregnancy test. It was positive. DH was 47 and I was 43.

He had a vasectomy after that but we only did one sperm count.

steph

[SmilingBluEyes]

I know of quite a few people who had post-vasectomy babies. I know FEWER who had post tubal babies. For some reason, at least from what I see in patients and aquaintances, vasectomies fail more often than tubal ligations do. Don't know why.

[epiphany]

She and her DH both insisted she had never missed one period.

!

Could this really happen? An entire pregnancy without missing one period?