I can understand where this gal was coming from, how she missed being pregnant. She was told, explicitly, that she would never be able to have children because of a nasty case of necrotizing fasciitis that necessitated abdominal surgery. Then, along with that, she had irregular cycles, and somehow managed not to really have a weight change.
I can only imagine going to the hospital for a hernia, and finding out I was carrying a full-term ten-pound baby, and needed to have a C-section immediately.
I can only imagine her joy to find out that the doctors were wrong. At least, the joy she's going to feel once the shock wears off. If thirty-six weeks (my longest pregnancy) isn't long enough for it to feel real at first, fifteen hours definitely isn't.
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I know someone that happened to. She was of German stock and on the large side. She didn't notice the weight gain. She went into labor, at work as a waitress in the restaurant her family owned.
ReplyDeleteYeah. It happens. I don't quite know how, but I guess some babies don't kick as hard as others.
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DeleteI was good friends with a couple who were expecting a baby.
The fetus was diagnosed with a strange autism problem and the effects can not be determined until birth....other than only a few babies are born alive.
They elected to carry the baby until term.
Their baby did not survive.
A hellish 9 months.
And is one of the few reasons I don't think abortion should be illegal to perform, just illegal to use as birth control.
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