How do these people not know they're pregnant until they giv

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Sometimes I read in magazines that a woman is just going about her daily business, when suddenly she starts giving birth to a healthy, full-grown baby, but she didn't know she had been pregnant at all.
How did they not know they've been pregnant for the last 8-9 months? Didn't they get any signs? Nausea, tiredness, certain food cravings, no periods, growing tummy, sensation of baby kicking, and all the other signs?
If it's possible to not know you've been pregnant all that time, what if I'm pregnant right now and I start going into labour tomorrow at my cousin's wedding? It's got me paranoid. I know I'm on the pill but I heard women can still get pregnant on the pill.

Sometimes, they're so fat that a little "Baby Bump" will literally go un-noticed. Other times, they are in such total denial that they perceive their labor pains as gastro-intestinal cramps, and they give birth on the toilet.

It’s hard for me to relate to this scenario. I had horrible morning sickness my entire pregnancy. Fun times.

A friend of mine, his wife helped deliver a baby in a bathroom once. The woman said she had been pregnant before, but this second baby, she was still having her periods and everything, so they just thought she was putting on a little extra weight (she already had a bit).

These women typically have a few traits in common.

1. They do not have regular periods and may go many months without having one.
2. They tend to have weight problems.
3. They tend to have IBS.

As such. they miss the usual things that clue a woman off to the fact that she might be pregnant...missed monthly periods, weight gain, sensations of movement.

Not everyone has those things in their pregnancy. Some women don't have their monthly periods and they only get them sometimes and then they never get one again so they assume their period just hasn't come again yet. Some women spot during their pregnancy so they might just think they are having a period. People might mistake their back pain for back pain than being pregnant. People might mistake their tiredness from simply working too hard and not getting enough sleep. Some women are very fat so they might not even notice they are pregnant and their fat belly compensates for their baby inside. Some women don't gain during their pregnancy so they might just have been losing the weight while gaining baby weight so their weight stays the same. Some might mistake their weight gain for bad eating habits and there is lot of fatlogic out there so they might not even think why they are gaining.


I notice in the I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant TV show, lot of those women are overweight. There was one woman who had health anxiety so she always thought she had this or that, one day she was having these weird symptoms and they got dismissed as her being a hypochondriac and one day she wakes up with sharp pain in her belly and her mother dismisses it. The pain got so bad the mother ended up delivering her baby with the help of the 911 person.

These incidents do make me anxious in case I have been pregnant without knowing, then suddenly start giving birth in the middle of a shopping mall or airport or on a train or anywhere public, without being prepared or anything. I'm not overweight but I have always had a rather bloated stomach (it runs in the family).
But I suppose I have the same anxiety of having a burst appendix in public too, and that can happen unexpectedly to anybody. My cousin had a burst appendix once and she thought the pains were gas and so just took indigestion tablets and got on with her day. Her pains got worse in the course of 24 hours, and in the end she drove to a hospital, only to be told that if she had left it any longer she could have died from blood-poisoning from a burst appendix. She was surprised being told all this, and had to have an emergency operation to remove her appendix. Luckily she made a full, quick recovery.

It seems that the children born to the mothers in those programs all seem to be perfectly all right. Reality isn't like that. It could give some pregnant women the mistaken impression that all will be well even if you have no prenatal care, drink and smoke and a number of other bad and dangerous habits.