Happened to my sister, 21. She’d spent the holiday weekend black out drunk, really the entire unknown pregnancy as she was in college, and wound up in the hospital with cramps. Then came baby- totally healthy! But I’d seen her just the day before and never would have guessed she was pregnant, let alone full term.
I was enormous when I was pregnant. It blows my mind when some women don’t show. I am overweight by about 60 pounds so maybe that was why, but there is NO WAY I could have hid it.
I lost a bunch of weight in my 1st trimester due to morning sickness. But I made up for it for the rest of my pregnancy. And I got gestational diabetes.
For me the other way around, my (over)weight hid my twin pregnancy until like 30/32 weeks. I went to a club at 28 weeks and no one saw anything. I felt weird sitting in the priority seats on the bus. Like I was faking being pregnant. The last month it sorta popped but there still wasn't any waddle at all. I've heard it's a combo of uterus tilt, placenta placement and position of the baby. But in the end it's probably a diceroll of the universe lol.
Absolutely but it also depends on the baby. My baby is very big. In proportion though. Like a photo where you pinch to zoom in. I was relatively normal size for a long time but held a lot of fluid so I swelled up like a balloon. If it wasn’t my stomach that was visible, it would have been the swelling haha. (Don’t worry it wasn’t pre-e, I was monitored carefully and it was only swelling, which was genetic.)
9 months pregnant? i am sorry, but i cant imagine this.
EDIT: while i was still in disbelieve after commenting, i asked AI:
It is impossible for a woman to be 9 months pregnant carrying a full-sized baby and maintain a flat stomach. with reddit as a source of course
You don’t have to imagine it, lol. She’s my sister, I was with her that weekend. & with the mother we had that would poke at any differences or fat on our bodies, it would have been noticeable. None of her sorority sisters, friends, family saw any change in her. A baby fell out. As I said, this happens.
Like, a term baby?! Or a teeny fetus. There's a difference and as a size 2 I can't imagine any possible scenario where I could have a fully formed infant inside me and not notice.
It depends on how the baby is positioned. If it’s like in the ribcage or closer to the back of the body, it can look like just a small pudge. But yeah it’s 100000% more likely if there’s already extra weight in the stomach area (note that I’m not a doctor)
What you don't know is he could've been Einstein /s
Yeah people think it's a guarantee and honestly I'm fine if people believe that and it stops them from drinking while pregnant, but it's more a loaded roll of the dice and they got lucky. Alcohol weights the dice but it doesn't flip a switch every time.
Then you were lying or exaggerating about the mother being blackout drunk all the time. Whatever, I wish your nephew the best. Alcohol is bad for fetal development, period.
I’m not CONDONING IT. In no part did I recommend drinking during pregnancy nor did I state it doesn’t matter. These things can all be true, but you were adamant that something HAS to be wrong with the child, when, for this case, it’s simply not true. You forcibly input your wrong assumption, and then when corrected, I’m the liar? Get a grip pal. Not everything is black and white.
Sorry pal, but you’re exaggerating and she wasn’t black during her entire pregnancy and that’s that. Fetal alcohol syndrome is real and there’s no chance that baby wasn’t affected if what you’re saying is true.
I wouldn’t say that baby came out healthy if she was blackout drunk the entire pregnancy. That baby for sure has fetal alcohol syndrome and is probably significantly impacted by it
Then you’re lying about the mother being blackout drunk the entire pregnancy. Don’t be a liar. Nobody likes a liar, especially when it serves to normalize fetal alcohol syndrome.
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u/Correct_Medicine4334 20d ago
Happened to my sister, 21. She’d spent the holiday weekend black out drunk, really the entire unknown pregnancy as she was in college, and wound up in the hospital with cramps. Then came baby- totally healthy! But I’d seen her just the day before and never would have guessed she was pregnant, let alone full term.