Whenever I pass it on the dial, I have to stop and watch. I’m not surprised at how many babies were born in toilets since I spent the whole night and half the morning trying to have a bowel movement that was actually twins (I did know I was pregnant but I wasn’t due for another month).
Am I the only one fascinated by this show? I’m probably the only one who finds it hilarious but then I am a little sick and twisted. How can you not laugh at dialog like this:
Wife (on toilet, of course): I think I’m having a baby!
Husband: Don’t be daft!
Wife (while sitting on the toilet, of course): Bring me a towel to wrap the baby in.
Husband grabs the first towels he sees
Wife: Not those! Those are the good towels!
College girl to roommate (while sitting on the toilet): These are the worst period cramps I’ve ever had!
I also chuckle at how the re-enactors look almost like the real people only prettier.
I’ve never seen the show, but I’m always astonished by those stories. I mean I still have heartburn occasionally, but it doesn’t have elbows anymore. Didn’t their kids ever move?
How on earth can someone be ignorant of the fact they were pregnant right to term? When my wife was pregnant, she was reminded of that fact just about every moment the last few months!
My husband and I watch this showed and keep saying over and over again “How do you not know! Especially when you’ve had a kid already” Although the one with MS seemed plausible, though it was TWINS!
What stuns me is not that it ever happens, but that it happens often enough to base a whole fricking show around it!
Some of the women have very good excuses-- like the one with MS who had twins. She gained a total of 10 pounds and thought that was because she became practically bedridden with an attack. The MS caused paralysis on her left side (although that didn’t stop the sex, apparently).
One women suspected she was pregnant in the beginning and took two home tests that came out negative. The next month she went to a doctor who did a blood test and told her it was negative (a human or lab error, according to the show’s resident doc). She was a big woman which can hide the belly.
Some of the women-- the young girls especially-- seem just, well, stupid.
The one thing I always think of is the movement. Early on you could pass it off as gas but later. . . my husband said I looked like a scene from Alien. You could practically make out the hand or the foot or the butt right through the skin!
Well, I did find out I was a month and a half preggers when the Navy gave me a routine bunny test when I went in to acute care for something else entirely … my routine response had always been that there was no chance I was pregnant, I had my tubes tied in 1982 … this was in 1996. I thought the upset stomach was the stress of going back to work after 2 months recouperating from abdominal surgery and a proteus infection :smack:
I was that lucky 1% three times in a row. I joke if I was american indian my 3 kids [if I could have carried to term] would have been named ‘Rubber Broke’, ‘Rubber Broke Ortho Novum dont work’ and ‘the tube came untied’ … :smack:
Also, I didn’t realize I was pregnant at first either. I’ve always suffered from hormone problems and it isn’t unusual for me to not get a period for 3 months. It was my husband who insisted 3 months after we were married that I was pregnant.
Pshaw! Said I but I went to the doctor anyway to make him happy. I’m sure that the vomiting and very bad boobie pain that started the next month would have tipped me off. And the Alien thing-- that would have been a very clear sign.
Mine too, though not knowing it for awhile would be understandable … what truly isn’t, is not knowing it when you swell up like you swallowed a watermellon, and one that squirms in the bargain.
I find this show really hard to believe, too. I mean–maybe the overweight women whose uterus is placed more in the back so kicks aren’t felt. MAYbe. But the rock singer? Thin? Gaining only 10lbs? Not noticing any of that stuff? Really?? I can understand not knowing about a pregnancy for the first 3 months, even maybe the first 5. But month 7 on, with the alien movements…really? Absent periods are only a small piece of the pregnancy symptom puzzle. Geez, at 17 weeks, I’m already getting kicked (then again, this is my second, so I know what the kicks are vs. gas).
I can almost understand a teen who’s just deeply in denial about it, but these adults just confound me. One even talked about HAVING an alien inside, and how she and her hubby joked about it…and labor for her was, she thought, just severe constipation. When she pushed it out, she thought she had finally managed to evacuate her bowels. Instead, she looked in the toilet and her baby daughter was looking up at her. WTH?
