You've probably heard the story before...

[Asile]

...about the woman (well, usually a teenage girl) who had no idea she was pregnant until she started to give birth. Now's your chance to say you kinda-sorta know someone just like that!

(The subtitle to this thread is The Longer Explanation of Why I Couldn't Go to the Recent DC Gather.)

I missed a golden opportunity to take advantage of nearly 40 weeks' worth of not feeling well and having every right to give into odd cravings and making my husband put up with odd hormonal-caused mood swings because it took until the very end of the pregnancy to even find out I was pregnant.

This is what happens when a couple convinces themselves--especially the wife--that they'll need fertility treatments in order to conceive...if that's even possible.

It's what further happens when said wife (that would be me) spends the majority of the pregnancy going through the following:
~Stressful job changes
~Changing eating habits in an attempt to become more healthy and lose weight
~Focusing exercises on core muscles--especially the abdomen

Since I couldn't go by the obvious sign of pregnancy (why we had the conviction the fertility treatments would be needed), all the other symptoms were explained pretty much by the above 3 factors. It also didn't help that I didn't get the NORMAL pregnancy bulge--I never lost a defined waistline; it was only my upper tummy that gave a clue something was growing in there.

That upper tummy bulge, in fact, was what led me to go ahead and get the P question answered, just in case of a small miracle. Or rather a big miracle.

Within 12 days, my husband and I went from just finding out we were expecting to having a very healthy, very alert and very strong baby girl who just turned 2 weeks old today. Go figure this one :tumble:

Despite the scrambling, and the one time my husband just about fainted, both of us are rather glad it happened this way. No months of anticipation...not a whole lot of time to read and hear so much we got totally paranoid (we got paranoid enough in the 2 weeks we had, and could only keep telling ourselves that humans have survived for hundreds of thousands of years without all the info and products we're bombarded with today)...we just had to go with the flow. And my husband got off lucky 'cause I apologized a lot for feeling out of sorts and never sent him out in the middle of the night to fulfill odd cravings.

Not that I recommend this, mind you. There was a ton of worry about how healthy she'd be, since I hadn't been getting any checkups or always taking the best care of myself. My girl ended up coming out by C-section, and even though having a NICU doctor in the operating room seems to be fairly standard procedure, I was a bundle of nerves until the doctors and nurses confirmed that she was just fine and her initial screenings were almost perfect.

If anyone wants to see, she's got her own Set in my Flickr account (http://flickr.com/photos/asile13/sets/72157607889936598/).

[Durgrimst]

Congrats

[ElanthianSiren]

aww congrats. I love the yawning picture!

[Allereli]

wow congrats!

[Methais]

It's a good thing you gave up that coke habit after all.

[Sean of the Thread]

Uhm you didn't notice that Aunt Ruby vanished for 9 months?

Congrats on ya baby tho!


Totally unrelated question but how much do you weigh?

[Keller]

Totally unrelated question but how much do you weigh?

:help:

[diethx]

Holy shit, that's nuts. She's gorgeous though, congrats.

Oh and Sean2, stress and not taking great care of yourself can make your period disappear. I've never seen or had it happen for that length of time but those things (especially stress) can make your cycle way irregular.

[Solkern]

COngrats

[Hips]

Awww, congrats! She's so cute!

[SayGoodbye]

<<Since I couldn't go by the obvious sign of pregnancy (why we had the conviction the fertility treatments would be needed),>>

Roughly translated means I don't think she was cycling normally anyhow. Probably had polycystic ovarian syndrome or something.

Congratulations btw Asile, awesome news.

[Sean of the Thread]

How do you not notice this?

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/raim0007/wost3307/pregnant-woman-food-and-drink-7-AJHD.jpg

[Sean of the Thread]

I will say your baby doesn't look like an alien. Great looking kid.

[DeV]

Congrats, she's adorable.

[Gallows Thief]

Congrats Asile!

[Shari]

Congrats! I wish I was so lucky as to not have realized and waited, and agonized for Riley's birthdate to come!


Some people have an irregular menstrual cycle and can't time that sort of thing. My sister-in-law had no idea she was pregnant until 6 months in. However, she is a large woman so the growing belly thing didn't seem that dramatic to her. Stranger things have happened though!

[Warriorbird]

One of the crazier things I've heard all day.

Congratulations!

[Drew]

Wow, cool!

[Kyra231]

Uhm you didn't notice that Aunt Ruby vanished for 9 months?

Congrats on ya baby tho!


Totally unrelated question but how much do you weigh?

I've seen quite a few patients gain so little weight all they had to do was unbutton the top button of their jeans at 9 months. They were only about 135 to start with, she wouldn't have to be a moose to not know(although that end of the spectrum happens also). :shrug:

And congrats on the baby, what a little doll :)

[DCSL]

What's her name or have you not been able to think that far due to the suddenness of it?

[diethx]

LilyAnne Faye according to the pictures.

[DCSL]

Ah, didn't find an easy link to the Flickr account and I'm lazy, so I didn't see. XD Close coincidence! One of my co-workers is going to pop any day now and she's going to name her daughter Lilian. She hopes to mold her daughter into a punk-loving good girl. Somehow..

[Asile]

How do you not notice this?

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/raim0007/wost3307/pregnant-woman-food-and-drink-7-AJHD.jpg

I never had that!!

You obviously missed reading the part where I said I never lost my defined waistline. Even as my husband and I were walking into the hospital, I did not look obviously pregnant. In fact, it was only one or two pairs of pants that started to feel oddly snug during the last two months.

So there.

And yes, I was trying to delicately put that I don't have regular cycles like most women, and so was convinced the huge fertility issue was on my end. (Despite various tests over the years, we never found a cause. I have heard, though, of other women with the same condition who did become regular after a pregnancy, so I guess I'll get to see!)

[Asile]

LilyAnne Faye according to the pictures.

Yep, LilyAnne Faye (the Anne and Faye parts for my grandmothers). Fortunately, I had an idea of what names I'd like if I ever did have a child, and my husband agreed with the name for a girl.

[Amaron]

Congrats! yeah for babies!

[Stanley Burrell]

Congratulations; and remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

[diethx]

Fortunately, I had an idea of what names I'd like if I ever did have a child, and my husband agreed with the name for a girl.

I totally have baby names picked out already (i've had one of them picked out since I was like 10) and we're not even gonna start trying for a couple/few more years (/wrists).

[DCSL]

Hope you do better than me with that. I met my boyfriend when I was in my early twenties. We picked out names for our future kids 'cause, hey, I figured I'd have them eventually. Now I'm twenty-seven and thus far, my biological clock has not gone off. I'm one year away from being the age my mother was when she had me and no babies on the horizon for me.

My boyfriend still thinks having children is somewhere in our future. Little does he know we're just going to have dogs. Shh.

[diethx]

Same, except my clock has been going off for years now. We're just being smart and waiting until we're both done with school and he's been working for awhile with some financial stability. I'll be 30 before I start having kids, i'm sure of it. And it pains me, even if I know we're doing the right thing.

edit: Oh and when I talk to my mom, she proceeds to remind me she was 30 before she had me. And I then remind her that she had one kid, while I plan on having several. I want a big family and I would like to have all the birthing done before i'm 40 and my eggs are rotten and I have a higher risk of gene issues.

[Sweets]

Wow! Congrats! She's beautiful. I'm a bit envious of the whole not having to switch to maternity clothing and the whole business. I've been losing weight because of the morning sickness but my bump is showing and my clothes aren't fitting right.

And yes, I still have that red shirt for later on so my hubby gets to yell "Hey Koolaid" again. He can't wait.

[ViridianAsp]

How do you not notice this?

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/raim0007/wost3307/pregnant-woman-food-and-drink-7-AJHD.jpg

When I was pregnant I really didn't start showing till my eighth month in, then I exploded. Some women don't show for a really long time, and just a small bulge one would fist think, weight gain.

[Brattt8525]

Congrats!

[Praefection]

I don't know if you've already answered this but didn't you feel the baby move? I don't have kids but friends of mine who did said they could feel them moving after several months. Congrats though. :)

[diethx]

Maybe she just thought she had lots of recurring bad gas.

[Sean of the Thread]

Same, except my clock has been going off for years now. We're just being smart and waiting until we're both done with school and he's been working for awhile with some financial stability. I'll be 30 before I start having kids, i'm sure of it. And it pains me, even if I know we're doing the right thing.

edit: Oh and when I talk to my mom, she proceeds to remind me she was 30 before she had me. And I then remind her that she had one kid, while I plan on having several. I want a big family and I would like to have all the birthing done before i'm 40 and my eggs are rotten and I have a higher risk of gene issues.

Reminds me of Idiocracy.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee233/catchspider2003/English%20movies/Idiocracy/Idiocracy2.jpg

[Stanley Burrell]

Reminds me of Idiocracy.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee233/catchspider2003/English%20movies/Idiocracy/Idiocracy2.jpg

Anyone who carries on the name "Clevon" to a Jr. status is a decent candidate for a bullet between the eyes.

People have shitty names.

Congrats on the baby, yey.

[Asile]

I don't know if you've already answered this but didn't you feel the baby move? I don't have kids but friends of mine who did said they could feel them moving after several months. Congrats though. :)

Yeah, that was the very, very odd thing, and part of how the signals all seemed to be tied to something else. The first time I started feeling movements were after workouts that were focused on my abdominal muscles, so I honestly thought they were slight muscle spasms from working too hard.

At least she was active right up 'til the end so I had a week or so enjoying the kicks, and her dad could get a feel, too. I think I'm glad for this anyway; she's still incredibly active (tight swaddling? Nothin' doin' for this child!) which makes a few things more difficult than they should have to be.

[ElanthianSiren]

I totally have baby names picked out already (i've had one of them picked out since I was like 10) and we're not even gonna start trying for a couple/few more years (/wrists).

I LOL'd at this when I realized we had the same name most likely picked out for the girl.

[diethx]

I LOL'd at this when I realized we had the same name most likely picked out for the girl.

Haha, our little Kieras will be pals.

[Amber]

She's adorable. Congratulations to all of you!