Mother Gives Birth Twice But Has Never Experienced 'Real' Pregnancy
When I think of being pregnant, I think of discomfort, pain, and a whale-sized belly. But one woman has figured out the secret to the perfect pregnancy: She doesn't see it, she doesn't feel it, and she doesn't know it exists! Amanda Burger was 33 years old and had an 11-year-old son, yet she didn't know she was pregnant
until the second the kid decided to enter the world. Normally when you
hear this kind of fantastical story, the mom is young and has no idea of
the symptoms of pregnancy or she's overweight. In this case, it was
neither. Amanda just didn't HAVE any symptoms of pregnancy. Except for, you know, the baby.
Two years ago, Amanda woke up at 4 a.m. with mysterious stomach cramps. She and her husband went to the hospital thinking it was a problem with her appendix. But, lo and behold, Amanda was giving birth. She says the baby "pretty much just fell out."
Not only was the birth itself supereasy, but the pregnancy was, well -- pretty much nonexistent. Although Amanda had a "weird" feeling for months that made her take three pregnancy tests, they all came up negative. Other than that, she had no nausea, no breast swelling, no kicking inside her belly -- and she even continued to have regular periods! She says she only gained 15-20 pounds and would even wear a bikini outside. And no one asked if she was pregnant! Woah.
Imagine -- no worrying about eating brie or sushi! No buying a whole new wardrobe! Of course, there's the downside. Like, uh, not knowing you're having a kid. Amanda wasn't careful about what she ate or drank, had no prenatal care, and didn't prepare for anything. Thankfully it turned out fine. If this is the way all pregnancies went, I'd probably have 20 kids by now. Especially if this is the way the raising of the kids went too.
Experts say what happened to Amanda is very rare. But she must be built for a nonexistent pregnancy because this was her second kid and she didn't realize she was preggo with her first kid until she was almost six months along. Amanda told CNN:
I've never really had a 'real' pregnancy. I have two kids and no real pregnancy.
I'd say this was "real" -- just a whole lot better!
When did you know you were pregnant?
When I started having crazy mood swing, I knew...normally, I am a level headed person, and right when I see my level headed leave me, I know something else is up like pregnancy.
DO NOT NOT BELIEVE HER....nope. unless you don't pay attention to your body at ALL, you should know something! i mean come on....no way in hell.
I had actually had problems with morning nausea for the last year. I would wake up feeling sick wihtout fail nearly every morning. Then a week came were I was puking violently in the morning and not just feeling sick. People kept asking if I was pregnant and i kept getting upset because i didn't think there was any possible way (we took plan b). I was convinced i had a stomach parasite. my ex told me i should take a test so i can show it to the doctor to prove I wasn't pregnant so that he could just get to business and fix my stomach! You can imagine my surprise when it came up positive. i went to the doctor about a week later and was 6 weeks 5 days.
With my son I didn't know until I was 5 months. And I could have gone even longer without knowing because I didn't test for any real reason other than the fact that my friend had an extra pregnancy test and I thought, "Why not?". Surprise!! lol :) He is now 4. I had zero symptoms and no noticeable weight gain until the end of my 6th month. Then I exploded.
I knew at 5 weeks with our second because we were trying. And there is NO way I would have made it very long without knowing because my morning sickness this time was insane.
TGIF! What are you doing this weekend?
Are you a first time mom? If not, how many kids do you have?
- Cafe Amber
on Jul. 13, 2012 at 4:26 AM