Why would I say it happened to me just to get sympathy? I don't know any of you and we are all like a million miles apart so there will be no need for me to talk bull.

Atupa, it is possible to be pregnant and STILL have the monthly flow - learn something new and stop being difficult!

sweetheart give us facts !! Point us to books and write up's or journals that we can read and learn. Do not tell us stuff that you cannot back up in anyway. If u want us 2 learn new stuff teach us by showing and proving to us not with word on the pages but with facts and fifures ok !!.......and it does not matter if u r 1000 mile away or next door. It is a know fact that the internet has the highest number of split personality figures in any known community. It is only in the internet that you can say one thing and be the next so please leave that side about u not kwonin anybody aight.

Ol baby make u yarn face

Mrwhitesharks - If you have time you can go and research on the net - I am not the one disputing anything. I don't want to offend anyone but this is the reason I say most black Men are backward, not everything is black and white, it's just you can't understand it so get over yourself. I am a woman and it happened. simple! I can't even go on about this - I have work to do.

Now this is interesting…..

U tell a woman the truth her gets all agitated……… [..but this is the reason I say most black Men are backward, not everything is black and white, it's just you can't understand it so get over yourself…] it is not about being black or white madam, tis about wat is real and known and understood and can be researched. If you told me that you have divine intervention, I 4 nor talk but say u did not know is anoda pill all2getda.

A woman must be heard……… .. [it happened. simple! I can't even go on about this…] at this time and age, u cannot just say stuff and wish it away on the rest of the folks. If u say things, be ready to back them up with facts and not just mere words.

Always fellin important….. { … I have work to do..} and we are all job less …

I already told you to go and search on the net since you're the one disputing things. I'm sure you have time, since you are jobless!!!

White shark u don start again abi?

whiteshark & chocolatte should kiss & make up now, before i....

I nor dey quarrell, I just like things to be straight ......... Make I go find work do oh...

Gosh you guys have a way of going off-topic. in a silly way if u ask me

i haven't read through all the relevant posts on this topic, so pardon me if someone has already said this...

it's perfectly possible for a woman to be pregnant without knowing it whether or not she's had a baby before.
a few months ago there as a British awards ceremony for bravery, kindness, and stuff of that sort. and there as a girl either 9 or 10 can't rememberher age now. she got an award and the 999 tape was played for everyone to hear.
well the girl made the 999 call because her mom was in serious pain and neither one of them knew what was going on. girlie kept asking for the operator to give her tips on what to do, got towels, told her mom to lay down properly and even screamed "there's a baby coming out of her"...now isn't that a brave child (mind you she was 9 at the time of this incident)

....so yes its possible for her not to have known.

go check ur facts sweetheart... check am well well den come back here and yarn face.

Is not possible, for a lady to be nine good months pregnacy without some signs!

please tell them.

Ok................ She loves material things
Starts having sex............ maybe the CD burst or she did not use raincoat
Ist month no period, and she feels nauseous,
2nd month same
3rd month same,
4th month, tummy begins to swell up
jump to 7 mth
She can actually feel the baby kicking and she gave birth at this stage the baby will survive
fast forward to 9th month baby arrives


Unless this your cousin is Mary the mother of Jesus. She might have hidden it well but that pregnancy was there oh.!!!!!!

Now loving her regardless is a different matter but make she no dey talk that kind bobo in 2006. Tell her that all liar go to hell

Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts. Anyways, in the last few weeks/months, I've heard more versions of this story, making me believe the girl in question knew what was going on:

-->I did not know until the 7^th month(version 2);
-->I did not know until the last day(version 3);
-->I did not know until the baby popped out while I was out shopping( extension of version 3);

Does not make sense to me, though. She could be lying or finding it hard to put her story in a coherent fashion, but one thing I've gotten from all this is:
There is no way a woman will be pregnant (for 9 mths) and not feel it. Knowing it for sure is a different matter, but they will sure feel the presence of another human being growing inside of them. Methinks, some women deliberately ignore whatever little signals their body sends and end up framing some cock-and-bull story.

When I first talk am them say I dey mad and I be jobless. I wonder how people think sha..

In your cousin's case, she might have known or she may not have known, but the fact of the matter is that THESE THINGS HAPPEN.

TO ALL YOU DOUBTING THOMASES OUT THERE,

It is not every pregnant woman that;
stops seeing her period, some get their period throughout the whole pregnancy;
Not everyone experiences nausea;
Not everyone gains weight;
Some people lose weight during pregnancy;
Not everyone's belly comes out;
Not all pregnancy tests are accurate; etc

We live in the United Kingdom. My little sister had been ill, admitted into hospital three times, had all sorts of test done to her, she used conventional and alternative medicine, got lots of injections, there were even talks of giving her blood transfusion, [/b]AND[b] yet she still saw her period regularly. She had been to three different hospitals and [/i]all pregnancy tests were negative[i]. The doctors were baffled about her illness. She wears size 6 in the UK, which is a size 2 in the US, and was losing weight.

I got a call from my mum in November that they had just found out that my junior sister was pregnant. My mum was really scared and upset  because she had been subject to loads of tests and injections for the whole months that the pregnancy had gone undetected, and pregnant women are only allowed limited drugs in pregnancy.

My mum told me that even though my dad was very upset, he had agreed that she could keep the pregnancy. The next thing i said to my mum was that so i am going to be an aunt in summer, and her reply was that NO THE BABY IS DUE IN JANUARY.

I must have swallowed the spoon that i was eatiing with, cause my cutlery is one down, and i have searched everywhere for it to no avail.

After I regained my composure, I said to my mum that but i thought you just said dad had reluctantly agreed that she could keep the baby[i].MEN can be so clueless. So if he had not agreed, would she have been subject to aborting a[/i] seven/eight months old pregnancy?

My sister has since given birth to a heathy bouncing baby boy, who miraculously did not have any birth defects whatsoever. The only thing is that he is allergic to milk.

On another note, My friend is a UK size 14/American size 10, her belly is so flat that people always comment that she is very lucky to have such flat belly on her big frame.   

She is currently five and half months pregnant now and people are always telling her to get proof that she is actually pregnant. Her cousin, who is also five months pregnant escorted her to the council to get accommodation and the receptionist told her that she would have to bring proof that she was pregnant, whilst the cousin got referred to the Homeless Persons Unit straightaway. 

The fact that something seems weird does not mean that it is not true.

when you don't know something it is not proof that it cannot or does not happen and until you know then you just don't know.  pregnancy for every woman very different, even specialists will tell you that much. now i know so it will do you all 'unbelievers' a lot of ggod to stop being so cynical and learn, cos you never know when it might be up your alley.

as for pie1ect's cousin i can definitely not say whether or not she's lying but as to if women can be pregnant and not know, oh, i can verify that very easily because it has happened to me. and after finding out i wanted to find out more information about why it happened the way it did, checked out a few sites and found out that a lot of women have acutally experienced the same thing. i had wnat is called poly cystic ovarian syndrome, which made it impossible to have regular periods, women with pcos sometimes go for as many as 6 months or more without having their periods and coupled with that, they get bloated a lot, and experience weight gain around the waist. in addition to the foregoing, not all women experience morning sickness, i didn't, apart from fatigue once in a while, (which can always be attributed to something other than pregnancy of course) i didn't experience any other pregnancy symptom.

all these are not farfetched sotries, they are actually scientific information that anyone can get from books and the internet.

so like i said, in as much as i am not giving credence to the cousin's story, i am also saying when you don't know, don't knock it as untrue, find out!

Well, it is not possible for an african woman not to know that she is pregnant. Oyinbo women may be pregnant and not know until the baby pops out but not a nigerian. Come on!!! It is true that in some women amenorrhea does not occur but then there are other things that tell that a woman is pregnant. what of paleness of the skin? what about sunken eyes? what about retention of fluid in the body making the woman appear fatter than usual, what about the baby kicking in the womb? It is plausible to say some women dont take note of changes in their bodies but to say nothing happens is , especially for an unmarried girl, she knew. I'm sure the mother saw the changes in her and that was why the cock and chicken story of complication after appendectomy came about. Na wa o!!!!!!!!

I also didn't believe (not knowing that one is pregnant), until i watched discovery health channel about women giving birth without any prior knowledge of being pregnant(i know, i am about 2-5 years late in replying, ).
Research is a powerful and wonderful tool that prevents us from sounding ignorant.

A woman

I think the most important issue here is not when she discovered she was pregnant but if she knows the father

reality:

Is not possible, for a lady to be nine good months pregnacy without some signs!

Come bros, you be woman?
Not every woman has the so called normal signs of pregnancy,

Not everyone suffers from nausea, some woman still have their monthly flow, some woman dont even show bel :ole!
Not everyone will add weight.

I have a friend who was 8 months gone and u could hardly see anything.
Some people's stature will determine whether they show or not,

It is called "Denial of pregnancy".  For one reason or the other (a woman who believed she could never get pregnant (again), a woman in an unstable relationship etc), the body unconsciously obeys to the "unbelief" and will not display the usual signs of pregnancy. Recently in France, it came in full light and some women confirmed it happens.

For more: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_pregnancy?wasRedirected=true

Here is a tough case: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8104195.stm

For a fews months yes but nine months!yes some women tummies don't purtrude as compared to most women.
I have seen women who wear boubou whenever they are pregnant;to those who are not very close to them,they won't know that such a woman is pregnant.
Some women get pregnant and tie special cloth on their tummy causing the tummy not to purtrude much.
I found it impossible to believe that a woman will be pregnant for 9 months and not know!haba!!!

Instances/incidences of women being ignorant about their pregnancy until time of delivery has been featured on television. it is mind boggling though.

You cannnot have your period and be pregnant at the same time. Its not biologically possible. So what your friend had was vaginal bleeding, which can happen during pregnancy. But not be menstruating. If you are having your period while you are pregnant, miscarriage is inevitable.

Many women report having their period while pregnant, but typically this is not the case. The reason why this cannot be is that pregnancy and menstruation cannot take place at the same time, by the very definition of the two. If you were pregnant and you began menstruating you would inevitably lose the pregnancy, or have a miscarriage. While you cannot have your period and continue to be pregnant at the same time you can experience vaginal bleeding and continue to be pregnant. It is often this vaginal bleeding that women believe is their menstrual cycle when it is not.

Early pregnancy bleeding is not at all uncommon and many women report that they do bleed regularly during the early portion of their pregnancies. This is not at all a menstrual cycle though; it is usually referred to as early pregnancy bleeding. This bleeding is usually is due to hormonal changes and is not of the quantities of blood that a woman typically sees when having her normal menstrual period. Early pregnancy bleeding can vary in amounts from slight spotting to vaginal bleeding consistent with a menstrual cycle.

Another reason for bleeding during pregnancy is something called implantation bleeding. This bleeding usually takes place when the embryo is attaching to the wall of the uterus. This type of bleeding is ordinarily seen five days after conception, so it is easy to see why a woman would confuse this bleeding with her menstrual cycle and there may be some difficulty in determining when the last menstrual period was. Implantation bleeding is not all that common and usually is not more than a slight spotting or a pinkish red colored mucus, but occasionally there is more bleeding associated with it.

http://www.thelaboroflove.com/articles/can-you-have-your-menstrual-period-while-pregnant/

@ poster

do u want the truth? its possible to be and you might not know. this will occur when the lady involve is young and inexperience.  A friend younger sister gave birth to a baby and the whole family were surprise that that could be. Even the girl was like mummy what is this doctor saying because they took her to the hospital for severe head ache. So don't be surprise that things happen in this world. its only when you have not move around that you say your father's farm is the biggest. So my opinion here is support her in all your own little way cos this is the time she needed you most. Rather will u believe this that a virgin girl after been roughen a little got pregnant and yet  "doctors" still certified her a virgin and mind u she delivered been a virgin. it happens.

Please take some time and watch those episodes of the "I didnt know I was pregnant" show from the american Discovery Health Channel. A woman can be pregnant til the time she delivers and never knows it. It is rare but it sure happens. Anybody who states that it doesnt need to open up their minds.
http://health.discovery.com/tv/i-didnt-know-i-was-pregnant/
And by the way the periods they have during their pregnancy are not "true period" they are more like "regular" and heavy spotting.

It's very possible. My cousine was pregnant and never knew. Her parents suspected due to her increased weight but she kept on seeing her period till d day she gave birth