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I used depo pro era, and had the shot every 3 months or so. I was pretty depressed at the time, my boyfriend had just died, so I was always really fatigued and slept 12 hours a day. Never felt great, didn’t eat much. Then when I did eat I threw it back up. Sometimes I would throw up without even eating, just water. I thought it was like a manifestation of how stressed and anxious and depressed I was. I started to feel bloated a lot, my stomach was firmer (I thought because I wasn’t eating and was throwing up what I did eat), I had constant heart burn. There were times where I felt like I couldn’t breathe out all the way, which is a frustrating feeling. It wasn’t until I could feel just how hard my stomach was that I realized what was up. I think if I had someone in my life at the time it would have been obvious when I was randomly throwing up, but I was so depressed and tired and sick feeling all the time, that it just felt like one more thing. Like great I can’t go a day without crying, can’t get off the couch, can hardly eat, and I’m now throwing up, when will it end??Didn’t realize until 5.5 months in, a little over 4 months after my boyfriend died.
Not me but 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 was very obese to start with so 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.
I had a 2nd trimester miscarriage. After that I stopped having periods. For years. I was in my 40s so I was told I was menopausal. Yippee-Skippee! So, my husband and I threw caution to the wind. Wow. Was that ever great. No barriers, no pills, just hot, sweet nooky.Then I got tired like I had the flu. I just was so damned weary. One day my husband said to me that I was not just tired, I was pregnant. (he said “your tits just look sooo fine!")And I was. I was 47 when I had him. All was fine, and he is now a wonderful 11 year old kid. He loves accordion music, legos, dancing, riding his bike. Nicest surprise we ever had.
Everything smelled weird. My toddler was not sleeping through the night and I was working more than full time, so was exhausted. I pleaded with my husband to figure out why the house smelled like garbage and left on a business trip to Vegas. It was a regular company trip and co-workers had significant debauchery planned. I’d have a glass of wine with dinner then nearly fall asleep over dessert. And everything still smelled weird. I bailed on all the plans since my tolerance was so low, slept a lot and still felt exhausted. Saw the doctor when I got back and found out I was in week 20, maybe, but it was late enough in the pregnancy they couldn’t date it.So I warn people I can’t go to Vegas anymore, since I came back pregnant from the last trip.
I had a weird two-week long period. Then for three days straight, I mentioned to my husband that I really could go for some chocolate cake. He jokingly asked me if I was pregnant but I couldn’t possibly be because I had the Skyla. What he said didn’t sit well with me so I took a pregnancy test the next day. Womp womp.
Missed my period, felt pregnant, had all my usual pregnancy symptoms. So I bought a multi pack of name brand pregnancy tests. I took all 5 over the course of the week and all 5 were negative. I made an appointment with my MD fully expecting to hear the “C” word. When the blood test came back +, I blurted out, “Oh, thank God! I thought I was gonna die!”
Was working 12 hour shifts so I was already constantly tired and was working as a janitor so I just attributed the “ew everything smells gross” to that. Also wasn’t happy with the job and it was sending me into a depressive episode so strange eating habits were because of that.Was told about 2 years prior that I wouldn’t be able to have kids (had undiagnosed chlamydia for too long, also had Pelvic inflammatory disease) so I had finally quit bc because i was having s****y side effects anyway.I only finally got suspicious when I puked up perfectly good food after just eating it. Took 3 tests and they were all positive and now I’m sitting next to my gurgling 1m son at 4am lmao
Not me but a friend.She was on BC and was still having a “period”, lost a lot of weight, her hair was falling out, and she was so severely ill that she thought she had cancer. She went to the doctor and it turned out she was in her second trimester.
I went on business trip to Germany. Came back. Felt very tired, but blamed it on working full time with 3 kids. Over xmas gained a few pounds. But who doesn’t? Hubs said I was acting weird. One morning he caught me having a cheese and onion sandwich, dipping it in yoghurt. He asked me to get a check up asap. I went to the obgyn. Rolled nearly from the table when he anounced me I was pregnant. 24 WEEKS PREGNANT. 3 weeks later I had a huuuuuige stomach. She is blond with blue eyes and very different than her siblings. He keeps joking that her father is German lol
I sneezed violently which ruptured a corpus luteum cyst and while they were giving me an ultra sound for that they found a tiny blob with a pulse about 1/6th the size of the cyst
Thought the cheese sandwich I’d brought to Wembley for the 2015 Community Shield had been dodgy. Nope. 7 weeks pregnant.
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 labour, and my hairdresser had to ask what labour is.I’ve seen a photo of her 2 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.
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Not sure if this counts as “we didnt know” though my wife had a copper IUD installed that has been in for about a year. IUDs are generally 99.9% effective, except for when they arent. I think her body may have shifted it because I could feel it inside her in the later stages, though we ultimately had a healthy 3rd son despite the IUD.Moral of the story, dont always trust contraception to be foolproof.
My mum’s leg became stiff when she had to do a relay run for fun. She went to the doctors about it and they thought it was a tendon injury. Buuuuuut they all found out that she was actually pregnant with me, and her leg froze up because I accidentally laid on a sensitive nerve.
Not me but my godmother. She didn’t have any children and at the age 40 she started gaining weight. Didn’t notice any other symptoms or maybe didn’t have any. At some point she went to a doctor and found out she was pregnant for quite a few months now. Was kinda like a miracle, I guess she thought she couldn’t have kids.
My husband and I have fertility problems. My periods are regular and one month it seemed to start, but never turned into more than a light flow with light cramps. I tested and it was negative. Tested a few days later and it was positive. My GYN wouldn’t see me until 8 weeks, so I waited patiently.Then, I had some stronger cramping and bleeding, so I went to the ER. Over two days my HCG levels dropped significantly and I was told I was miscarrying at almost 6 weeks. I was told I would bleed more then it would be done.I went on lightly bleeding for the next 2 1/2 weeks and it seemed it would never stop. I started having stabbing pains so I went back to the ER. They checked my HCG levels and they’d risen, but weren’t very high for what they should have been. It turned out I had an ectopic or tubal pregnancy.At almost 9 weeks, it was so far along the doctor had to remove my Fallopian tube, but thank goodness, it hadn’t ruptured. Unfortunately in the three years since my ectopic we haven’t gotten pregnant and IVF was recommended. We aren’t doing IVF.
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…
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I had been trying to concieve for 8 years and was diagnosed secondary infertile. After years of keeping pregnancy test companies in business i had entirely given up and was pursuing intercountry adoption (newborn adoption is rare in my country and intercountry adoption takes many years). I no longer tracked my cycle as it had no rhyme or reason and i did not ovulate and had no expectation to be pregnant. But one day i just had this funny urge and i drove across town and bought a pregnancy test. Cursed myself for the stupidity of it. Did the pregnancy test, read my millionth negative and chucked it away feeling stupid. A few hours later out of the blue i had this startling reflection on the test. It felt like i should go get it out of the bin.. it showed a clear positive but of course was well out of the time i should read it. I was confused. About the whole thing!! Why i got the test. Why i read negative. Why i felt like i needed to look again. Why it seemed to show a positive. It was all just bizarre. Anyway i went for a blood test the next day and yep i was a couple of months pregnant, actually nearly 11 weeks. Weirded me out then and still does now.
I didn’t know for the first 4 months. No period was normal for me. I didn’t have any symptoms. At 4 months, I just had a “feeling”. Got a test that was positive and went to PP. They confirmed it and made a perfect guess as to how far along I was.
About two weeks after having a period, I went into the doc for severe dizzy spells. My blood pressure was 70/40 for a good week. I had developed nausea and was having severe headaches. Even started seeing black spots. Before they did any radiology, they needed a pregnancy test.Definitely preggers. Not even a little bit. My hcg count was so high that I was either incredibly far along or was pregnant with multiples.Ended up with just one thankfully. Based off the dating, I’d gotten pregnant two periods before and still had one anyways. Was 12wk+5 at my first appointment
I just kept getting negative pregnancy tests for like two weeks after my missed period… finally got a positive test at 7 weeks. Nothing too dramatic. Didn’t feel pregnant for another few weeks either cuz I had zero symptoms, then about week 9 I got nausea and food aversions and sore boobs and exhaustion and everything all at once lol.
Found out I was pregnant when I was around 16 weeks. The day after I found out I was pregnant I found out I was having a girl. She was 33 weeks along when I had her. I was roughly pregnant ( that I knew about ) for 17 weeks about 4 months. I was 19.
Not me, but my best friend. She had a daughter 3 years ago and had a tubal done right after she gave birth.She was having constant flu-like symptoms. Found out she was 8 weeks pregnant, so she was one of the 0.5%. She had a miscarriage before she was able to abort. There was a reason why she had a tubal in the first place, as she was done having kids and due to various health issues (preexisting heart condition), her pregnancy was high risk and utter hell. Her daughter is also special needs and already had lung surgery, so money was ultra tight.
There was an honest to goodness stomach flu going around the school where I taught right when my “morning” (hahaha it was all day) sickness started so I kinda knew but at least it provided a good alibi.
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