Crazy Pregnancy Stories

[beebe918]

I went down a buzzfeed rabbit hole and came across some crazy pregnancy stories.  This was my favorite:

Teen with no vagina becomes pregnant after knife fight:
abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/teen-girl-vagina-pregnant-sperm-survival-oral-sex/story?id=9732562

best "I didn't know I was pregnant story ever"!

Anyone have any other crazy stories (either news/tv stories or people you know IRL)?

[beefinch]

Don't really know if this is classed as 'crazy' but it certainly shocked my town lol!

I was in school, in my last year so I was 16 (I'm from UK), and I was walking from English to Maths (can remember because the subjects were all different buildings lol) and there was this rumour going around that a girl had given birth in the ICT toilets.

The school was in the shape of an X, so you could drive pretty much into the centre, while walking me and my friends saw an ambulance, crowds gathered and then a paramedic came out of double doors pushing a wheelchair with a girl a couple years below me in it (she would of been 14) and she was holding a bundle in a white blanket. She looked very shocked, bless her.

A friend of mine new her, so a couple days later we had the story that she has no idea she was pregnant, had been having these massive pains for about 2 days and really needed the toilet (she actually needed to push) and the baby arrived in the toilet bowl! The baby was breech as well, but that was quite lucky as the baby's head would of taken the impact of the toilet bowl but the feet did.

She's still the talk of town, bless her and her little girls a now heathy 7 year old (I'm friends with her on FB) she said when she had her second baby 4 years ago that how she have birth breech was beyond her, as her second was breech as well.

Oh dear!

[amelandre]

When I was a freshman in HS there was a girl a few years older than me from the next town over who had no idea she was pregnant until she gave birth on the side of the road on the way home from a track meet. The baby was premature (I think around 30 wks) but the bus was literally one mile from the local hospital when they had pulled over, so they seriously just pulled her back on the bus and drove the whole team up to the front of the hospital to drop her off. The coach stayed with her until her mom could get there. My mom was working in the emergency room and took care of stabilizing the baby, who ended up having to be life-flighted up to the children's hospital but he ended up okay.

[lgsdesigner]

My cousin went into fast labor and birthed in her shower. Her husband wasn't home, and the labor was so fast, her daughter was out in less than 20 minutes. She cut the cord herself and called the ambulance after to get to the hospital to be checked out. Seriously though-- how scary!

[CaptainLeela]

Feb 3, 2015 11:12:53 GMT -5 lgsdesigner said:

My cousin went into fast labor and birthed in her shower. Her husband wasn't home, and the labor was so fast, her daughter was out in less than 20 minutes. She cut the cord herself and called the ambulance after to get to the hospital to be checked out. Seriously though-- how scary!

Holy crap. That would be completely terrifying.

[honeylemon]

Holy cow.

FYI, if anyone has a surprise unassisted birth, don't cut the cord yourself. It's usually better to keep the cord and placenta attached until you can get medical assistance.

[lgsdesigner]

Yes. honeylemon is correct. My cousin regretted that decision.

[jayjay]

Feb 3, 2015 14:31:19 GMT -5 honeylemon said:

Holy cow.

FYI, if anyone has a surprise unassisted birth, don't cut the cord yourself. It's usually better to keep the cord and placenta attached until you can get medical assistance.

I think I require more info on this one. Curious!

ETA: We are doing delayed cord clamping, just wondering why it's better in this case.

[honeylemon]

Feb 3, 2015 14:54:52 GMT -5 jayjay said:

Feb 3, 2015 14:31:19 GMT -5 honeylemon said:

Holy cow.

FYI, if anyone has a surprise unassisted birth, don't cut the cord yourself. It's usually better to keep the cord and placenta attached until you can get medical assistance.

I think I require more info on this one. Curious!

ETA: We are doing delayed cord clamping, just wondering why it's better in this case.

Continuing blood supply is a big one, but I also think to prevent infection, bleeding, etc.

The placenta should be placed in a bowl or wrapped in a towel and taken with you to the hospital (assuming you go to the hospital) so it can be examined.

[jayjay]

Feb 3, 2015 15:13:13 GMT -5 honeylemon said:

Feb 3, 2015 14:54:52 GMT -5 jayjay said:

I think I require more info on this one. Curious!

ETA: We are doing delayed cord clamping, just wondering why it's better in this case.

Continuing blood supply is a big one, but I also think to prevent infection, bleeding, etc.

The placenta should be placed in a bowl or wrapped in a towel and taken with you to the hospital (assuming you go to the hospital) so it can be examined.

Interesting! If all goes according to plan, we are doing a home water birth, and I just found out the midwife leaves the placenta with us. It's our responsibility to bury, burn, have encapsulated, etc.

[honeylemon]

Feb 3, 2015 15:15:49 GMT -5 jayjay said:

Feb 3, 2015 15:13:13 GMT -5 honeylemon said:

Continuing blood supply is a big one, but I also think to prevent infection, bleeding, etc.

The placenta should be placed in a bowl or wrapped in a towel and taken with you to the hospital (assuming you go to the hospital) so it can be examined.

Interesting! If all goes according to plan, we are doing a home water birth, and I just found out the midwife leaves the placenta with us. It's our responsibility to bury, burn, have encapsulated, etc.

That makes sense. The important thing is that it's examined to be sure it was delivered whole.

I'll hopefully be delivering at a birth center and will be bringing my placenta home for encapsulation. We did the same after my last birth.

[jayjay]

Feb 3, 2015 15:20:53 GMT -5 honeylemon said:

Feb 3, 2015 15:15:49 GMT -5 jayjay said:

Interesting! If all goes according to plan, we are doing a home water birth, and I just found out the midwife leaves the placenta with us. It's our responsibility to bury, burn, have encapsulated, etc.

That makes sense. The important thing is that it's examined to be sure it was delivered whole.

I'll hopefully be delivering at a birth center and will be bringing my placenta home for encapsulation. We did the same after my last birth.



**** QBF



You did it before? How did you find it? Obviously good, or you wouldn't be doing it again... but any specific benefits you particularly enjoyed?

[honeylemon]

jayjay Ive had PPD and PPA with both of my kids. I found encapsulation really helped tone down my PPD after my last birth. My symptoms blew up the week I finished my placenta pills and I had to start Zoloft.

Milk supply and healing are the other two big reasons for me.

[jayjay]

Feb 3, 2015 15:29:33 GMT -5 honeylemon said:

jayjay Ive had PPD and PPA with both of my kids. I found encapsulation really helped tone down my PPD after my last birth. My symptoms blew up the week I finished my placenta pills and I had to start Zoloft.

Milk supply and healing are the other two big reasons for me.

Interesting. I think I'm going to look into it some more, not sure if there's anywhere around here that does it but I will ask my midwife. Thanks for the info!

[sarahdawn]

I heard a crazy story about a fertility doctor that used his own sperm to impregnate his patients (without their knowledge, of course). He ended up fathering like 100s of kids in the area and went to jail.

[jayjay]

Feb 3, 2015 15:50:27 GMT -5 sarahdawn said:

I heard a crazy story about a fertility doctor that used his own sperm to impregnate his patients (without their knowledge, of course). He ended up fathering like 100s of kids in the area and went to jail.

Oh my goodness. That makes me sick.

[freddyisready]

Feb 2, 2015 20:35:52 GMT -5 beebe918 said:

I went down a buzzfeed rabbit hole and came across some crazy pregnancy stories.  This was my favorite:

Teen with no vagina becomes pregnant after knife fight:
abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/teen-girl-vagina-pregnant-sperm-survival-oral-sex/story?id=9732562

best "I didn't know I was pregnant story ever"!

Anyone have any other crazy stories (either news/tv stories or people you know IRL)?

This story is crazy. How did it take me almost 3 years to get pregnant?! I want to invent a sperm magnet to put in my cervix.

[pinkbarebear]

Feb 3, 2015 14:31:19 GMT -5 honeylemon said:

Holy cow.

FYI, if anyone has a surprise unassisted birth, don't cut the cord yourself. It's usually better to keep the cord and placenta attached until you can get medical assistance.

Thank you! I've been wondering this lately for some reason!

[viola]

Feb 3, 2015 15:50:27 GMT -5 sarahdawn said:

I heard a crazy story about a fertility doctor that used his own sperm to impregnate his patients (without their knowledge, of course). He ended up fathering like 100s of kids in the area and went to jail.

I saw that in a movie. Are you sure it wasn't a movie?

[sarahdawn]

Feb 3, 2015 19:58:53 GMT -5 viola said:

Feb 3, 2015 15:50:27 GMT -5 sarahdawn said:

I heard a crazy story about a fertility doctor that used his own sperm to impregnate his patients (without their knowledge, of course). He ended up fathering like 100s of kids in the area and went to jail.

I saw that in a movie. Are you sure it wasn't a movie?

I just googled it and apparently it's happened more than once. Wtf.

[viola]

Feb 3, 2015 20:24:12 GMT -5 sarahdawn said:

Feb 3, 2015 19:58:53 GMT -5 viola said:

I saw that in a movie. Are you sure it wasn't a movie?

I just googled it and apparently it's happened more than once. Wtf.

ew I can't imagine how devastating that is for the families 

[sjd06e]

One of my coworkers came into the hospital we work at with labor pains. After being in the hospital for a few hours, they sent her home.

She had her daughter in the car 20 mins after they let her go.

This isn't very reassuring to me as this is the same hospital I will probably be having my baby at!

[staccajaye]

Feb 3, 2015 19:58:53 GMT -5 viola said:

Feb 3, 2015 15:50:27 GMT -5 sarahdawn said:

I heard a crazy story about a fertility doctor that used his own sperm to impregnate his patients (without their knowledge, of course). He ended up fathering like 100s of kids in the area and went to jail.

I saw that in a movie. Are you sure it wasn't a movie?

Same, I seen that movie on Lifetime or W channel