And I thought I was never told anything! (now with baby pic!)

[Dave1982]

Well, looks like the "last to know" bug just bit me again....

I had to recheck this thread to confirm the due date: Nov 22.

Looks like the kid was a premie, and was born on Oct 9....... and no one told me!! I only just found out because my Aunt signed up for Facebook and sent a friend request, and once I accepted it I saw pictures of the baby!

Evgeniya "Zhenya" [Last Name Withheld], 4 3/4 lbs, 17 3/4", 10/9/10, my first cousin (once removed).

[BookstoreEscapee]

Awwwwwwwwwwww!!! She's beautiful!

[iradney]

She's very cute

[Taboo]

Don't feel too bad about not knowing. Aside from health reasons... sometimes people are just weird about things. I didn't know I had younger cousins until a year ago, and they were 1 and 3 at the time, nobody ever mentioned them and my family never shows photos to each other. *shrug*

She's cute!

[raw456]

Theres a show on discovery health called "I didnt know I was pregnant"....Filled with stories of women who basically show up to the ER with stomach aches and go home with newborns.

Should I be scared that this happens enough that they they made a show out of it?

Congrats on your new second cousin. She is adorable

[Teysa]

She's adorable.

[Twinblade]

she is a cutie! I actually had a friend whose mother was....fluffy.... who had always had wonky periods, went into the hospital with abdominal cramping etc, came out with a baby girl and had not even known she was preggers beforehand.

[Amina516]

Should I be scared that this happens enough that they they made a show out of it?

Congrats on your new second cousin. She is adorable

Scared? No.

Careful? Very....very very very very.



Gratz on the family addition, Dave.

[Dave1982]

I just hope I get to see her someday. Right now they're living in......well, somewhere in Russia. Moscow or St. Petersburg, not sure where exactly.

[hinakiba777]

aww baby girl! aww!

I have to say if I was your cousin's mom I would be very pissed until I saw this picture. Precious!

[Seraph]

Ehhhh I didn't know I was pregnant until I was five months along with my first child. Carried her towards the back, so she was a bit compact in there. (I'm small, baby bump would've been noticeable, lol)

... I thought for ages the squiggling movements were gas or something. My husband was floored when we found out. XP

[MoonCat]

I have a friend whose daughter didn't know she was pregnant until she found herself giving birth in the shower. She had two kids already and in both their cases, there were obvious signs of pregnancy; with the third one, there was nothing. He was a healthy baby, though.

[fireheart]

there are cases where people don't even realise they're preggers until well....they give birth.

[shadowpanda]

I'm terrified something like that will happen to me. I know it's fairly uncommon, but knowing my luck, I would have no idea I was pregant.
My sister is training to be a midwife and still believes she will fall pregnant and give birth 9 months later without realising her situation

Irrationality can bring much fun...

To the OP, congratulations to the birth of the new family member x

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Over here, we generally don't tell people, if we do choose to tell them, until after the first trimester. Over there, the state of health care being what it is, maybe that's how long they wait. Who knows? They told when they were ready to tell.

I got to ten weeks without having a clue I was pregnant. And one of my coworkers, while she did know she was, didn't really show much at all, even up to the day she was full term. She wasn't overweight, either, she was just a tall, big boned country girl type and carried the baby low enough it was tucked pretty neatly into her pelvis. If you didn't know she was pregnant, you wouldn't know she was pregnant.

I agree you can usually tell, but not always.

Or you could have a family as screwy as mine . . .

For example: when my youngest sister (now 23) was born, I had no idea that my stepmom was pregnant. She and my Dad chose not to tell either me or my brother.

We figured something was up, as we weren't allowed to come over to their house for either Thanksgiving or Christmas that year (Dad made some lame excuse which resulted in my mom calling him and chewing him out both times IIRC, as we were still minors at the time.)

A week (roughly) after I'd turned 18, during the weekend we were dealing with my stepdad's son (who had been abandoned by his own mom - stepdad's ex - when she moved out of state that week and left a note for her sister to take the child, but I digress) my father called and told me I had a baby sister.

I barely remember if I said anything or not. Mom said I was so speechless, I simply handed the phone to her and muttered something about Dad. I do recall he got the chewing out of a lifetime because he didn't want to tell his two older children until AFTER the fact - all because he didn't want either me or my brother at the hospital because he was ashamed of the fact that my brother is mentally challenged.

And when my middle sister (the one who is adopted) got pregnant with her first child, we weren't told. Hell, we didn't get to see Munchkin until she turned a year old. Same with the two boys - we didn't find out about them until they were born (well, the youngest one I found out about shortly before he was born - right before we went to the beach on vacation.)

And then you have the opposite - right now I've got a close g/f (we worked together several years ago and we're pretty close and talk reguarly) who just found out about 3 weeks ago that she and her hubby are having their first baby.

Pooh told me as soon as she noticed she was a few days late . . . not the first time she's ran late, but then this time around she started having the nausea. She took 3 home tests which all came up positive and also went to the doctor (at her hubby's insistence) to have it confirmed.

This past Friday, after making two trips to the ED at the local hospital because of severe vomiting/nausea and dehydration, her doctor scheduled her for an ultrasound which she had this past Friday.

Pooh and Hubby are having TWINS. They'll know the gender (or genders) in a few more weeks, but as my Mom has told her she's going to have double trouble.

BTW, Dave, congratulations on the new cousin - she's a cutie pie.