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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 29531" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Marg - It DOES happen! I knew a girl who thought she was having an appendicitis attack and ended up delivering a full-term 8-pound baby girl in the doctors office! And no, I'm NOT kidding! This girl went to school with my daughter and I worked with her dad.</p><p></p><p>There had to be a great deal of denial at work here too, but she really did <em>not</em> know! She was a senior in high school and her parents were away on the first real vacation they had taken in ten years. She was somewhat overweight but not that much. She took a home pregnancy test very early on that said "negative" (probably too early) so she assumed that she wasn't pregnant and attributed all her symptoms to something else, and she didn't tell her parents because she thought she had some horrible disease and she was afraid to tell them. Then came the day a few weeks before graduation, parents on vacation in the Bahamas, and she started having abdominal pains that got worse and worse. She got scared and literally ran down the street to the doctors office. The doctor, of course, saw right away that she was in labor ... she had about a half an hour to get used to the idea that she was going to be a <em>mother</em> before her daughter was born right there in the doctors exam room! Surprise! Surprise! </p><p></p><p>Her poor parents hadn't even known that she had a <em>boyfriend</em> much less.... Having had two children myself, I can't imagine how anyone could possibly mistake the feeling of having another <em>entire human being</em> kicking around inside of you in the later months! But apparently she did!</p><p></p><p>But we all did some very serious giggling trying to imagine that difficult phone call she must have made to her parents ... "Uhhh, Dad, guess what...!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 29531, member: 1883"] Marg - It DOES happen! I knew a girl who thought she was having an appendicitis attack and ended up delivering a full-term 8-pound baby girl in the doctors office! And no, I'm NOT kidding! This girl went to school with my daughter and I worked with her dad. There had to be a great deal of denial at work here too, but she really did [I]not[/I] know! She was a senior in high school and her parents were away on the first real vacation they had taken in ten years. She was somewhat overweight but not that much. She took a home pregnancy test very early on that said "negative" (probably too early) so she assumed that she wasn't pregnant and attributed all her symptoms to something else, and she didn't tell her parents because she thought she had some horrible disease and she was afraid to tell them. Then came the day a few weeks before graduation, parents on vacation in the Bahamas, and she started having abdominal pains that got worse and worse. She got scared and literally ran down the street to the doctors office. The doctor, of course, saw right away that she was in labor ... she had about a half an hour to get used to the idea that she was going to be a [I]mother[/I] before her daughter was born right there in the doctors exam room! Surprise! Surprise! Her poor parents hadn't even known that she had a [I]boyfriend[/I] much less.... Having had two children myself, I can't imagine how anyone could possibly mistake the feeling of having another [I]entire human being[/I] kicking around inside of you in the later months! But apparently she did! But we all did some very serious giggling trying to imagine that difficult phone call she must have made to her parents ... "Uhhh, Dad, guess what...!" [/QUOTE]
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