22 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}
22 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}

Favorite episodes from "I didn't know I was pregnant" ridiculed by The Soup

by TimPhelan
18 replies
  • OFF TOPIC
    • |
It's a hard choice for sure and I'm sure some may disagree with my selection but here it is. By the way, I'm just wondering if any of the women here have ever experienced this situation before?

  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Pooping? Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of them have. Girls do poop, you know.
    Signature
    "The Golden Town is the Golden Town no longer. They have sold their pillars for brass and their temples for money, they have made coins out of their golden doors. It is become a dark town full of trouble, there is no ease in its streets, beauty has left it and the old songs are gone." - Lord Dunsany, The Messengers
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1534635].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
      Well, no. Not quite pooping. I do realize that is common even among women. However, it seems a bit unusual to think you are pooping when in reality you are giving birth. Or maybe I am wrong about that.

      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      Pooping? Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of them have. Girls do poop, you know.
      Signature
      Over 50 Dating
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1534680].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Sylvia Meier
    LOL only guys so far in this thread.

    I always knew I was preggo so no surprises there, and because my water broke early with everyone of the 5 kids, I knew labour would be coming at some point afterwards.

    But you would be very surprised to learn from A LOT of women that are having their firsts and even ones on the progressive children that they think they have to go number 2 when in fact it is a kid pushing it's way out. The feeling (pressure wise) are very similar. In fact, (thank goodness it didn't happen to me) it is quite normal for both things to occur at once. Grossed out yet?

    Sylvia
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1534725].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
      See there? I learned something new.
      Originally Posted by Sylvia Rolfe View Post

      The feeling (pressure wise) are very similar. In fact, (thank goodness it didn't happen to me) it is quite normal for both things to occur at once. Grossed out yet?

      Sylvia
      Sylvia, does it surprise you that these women didn't know they were pregnant though? I mean, there must be other signs. Like a foot kicking you from the inside, etc...
      Signature
      Over 50 Dating
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1534851].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by TimPhelan View Post

        See there? I learned something new.

        Sylvia, does it surprise you that these women didn't know they were pregnant though? I mean, there must be other signs. Like a foot kicking you from the inside, etc...
        Well, there IS the amniotic sack, etc... AND things probably progress, like the proverbial frog in warm water, so I am not surprised by that.

        I AM surprised at how many women here make it sound so simple though. YEAH, I KNOW it can vary, some are in pain(even with epi-durals), etc... and some have a SHORT delivery and are up and around like nothing happens(with NO pain killers), but the ones that at least SAY they were in pain seem to be FAR more vocal.

        Steve
        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1536220].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author Sylvia Meier
        Originally Posted by TimPhelan View Post

        See there? I learned something new.

        Sylvia, does it surprise you that these women didn't know they were pregnant though? I mean, there must be other signs. Like a foot kicking you from the inside, etc...
        Honestly, I don't know.

        Like others have said it would depend on the mums for sure. See I was able to hide my pregnancy with my oldest (I was still a teen, school I attended would kick me out etc) fairly well until my 6th month, but no way she hid herself from me. The morning sickness, the odd have to have cravings, the weight gain (the most I gained in any of the pregnancies was 35lbs but that was enough to be noticed), the expanding chest as others have mentioned, I really cannot fathom a woman not knowing.

        And Steve, I agree some woman make it so simple when they speak about pregnancy and childbirth. Having had my 5 kids, I can tell you it can be short and simple, like it was with my youngest, or it can be the most painful, awful experience of your life, like with my oldest son. There is a wide range of issues that can occur (and I had quite a few of the bad ones, throughout the pregnancies and childbirth), and some of those cravings....yikes. I still have foods I cannot eat because I developed aversions to them during my pregnancy and other foods that make me so sick when I eat them, because I lived on them throughout a pregnancy.

        Sylvia
        Signature
        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1536631].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
    I'd have thought you'd have to be pretty big to start with not to realise you were pregnant, or maybe have very small babies. I wouldn't know about that - I'm not a particularly big person and all four of my kids were quite a substantial size when they were born, most notably eldest daughter, who weighed almost ten pounds, was two foot long and can still make my eyes water when remembering giving birth to her almost seventeen years later The size of the mother and the baby must be a factor, otherwise I don't see how you could fail to notice.

    You don't just feel the baby kicking either, for the last three months or so you can actually see it. I can vividly remember sitting on my sister's sofa with her one morning while we watched my bump jumping around under my t-shirt like a sack of puppies. Then there's the morning, noon and night sickness that goes on throughout, the dizziness and watching the world turn purple and fuzzy when you stand up, the knockers like concrete and the unnatural compulsion to eat three packets of softmints and half a tube of toothpaste every day for six months, punctuated only by the joy of regularly lifting the lid on a bottle of pine disinfectant, sniffing deeply and wondering if it would be too damaging to actually drink the stuff.

    How pregnancy can continue undetected until the birth is as much of a miracle to me as the birth itself
    Signature

    Plot short fiction, long fiction, even outline non-fiction * Edit the question prompts to suit your genre * Easily export text and image files for use with your word processor or Scrivener.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1535078].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by Diana Lane View Post

      half a tube of toothpaste every day for six months, punctuated only by the joy of regularly lifting the lid on a bottle of pine disinfectant, sniffing deeply and wondering if it would be too damaging to actually drink the stuff.
      IIRC, flouride is supposed to be DANGEROUS! They say VERY young kids shouldn't have it, and older kids should be limited, and NOT to swallow. And toothpaste in the US is limited to no more than HALF the strength a dentist may prescribe for protection! Is the toothpaste in the UK flouridated? What did your doctor say about that?

      Then again, for all I know, YOU may get sick before ingesting enough to pass enough through to hurt the child. Flouride is generally VERY limited, but HALF A TUBE!?!?!? EVERY DAY!?!?!?

      Steve
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1536230].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
        Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

        IIRC, flouride is supposed to be DANGEROUS! They say VERY young kids shouldn't have it, and older kids should be limited, and NOT to swallow. And toothpaste in the US is limited to no more than HALF the strength a dentist may prescribe for protection! Is the toothpaste in the UK flouridated? What did your doctor say about that?

        Then again, for all I know, YOU may get sick before ingesting enough to pass enough through to hurt the child. Flouride is generally VERY limited, but HALF A TUBE!?!?!? EVERY DAY!?!?!?

        Steve
        The toothpaste thing was a feature of all my pregnancies, but I never mentioned it to the doctor - I've almost got to be clutching my own valid death certificate before I'll bother seeing one anyway.

        I did wonder once if it mightn't be a better idea if I stopped eating it and so, because I'd wake twice each night and wander dozily off to the bathroom for my fix (at 2.00am and 6.00am, which interestingly was when the babies would wake demanding a feed after they were born), I decided to hide it right at the back of the bathroom cabinet so I'd at least have to wake up and think about what I was doing.

        Come the usual hour on the following night, I wandered into the bathroom and grabbed the toothpaste, completely disregarding what was in front of it. I knocked a glass bottle of deodorant into the ceramic washbasin below, knocking a great big hole through the bottom of the washbasin in the process. I decided there and then that it would be a whole lot less stressful to me and the baby just to keep eating the toothpaste. It doesn't seem to have done any of my kids any harm
        Signature

        Plot short fiction, long fiction, even outline non-fiction * Edit the question prompts to suit your genre * Easily export text and image files for use with your word processor or Scrivener.
        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1536823].message }}
        • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
          OK, well here's my second favorite episode from I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" that was ridiculed by The Soup. It seems this constipation idea while giving birth is fairly common:

          Signature
          Over 50 Dating
          {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1536879].message }}
        • Profile picture of the author seasoned
          Originally Posted by Diana Lane View Post

          I decided there and then that it would be a whole lot less stressful to me and the baby just to keep eating the toothpaste. It doesn't seem to have done any of my kids any harm

          Fluoride poisoning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

          28mg/KG so, if you weigh 150lbs(68KG)=1.9Gms SOME toothpaste is .15% fluoride. So A fair sized adult woman would need about 1269Gm to kill her. That is about 46oz. That is several large tubes. Prescription toothpastes are closer to .25% fluoride, and MORE dangerous.

          If a child weighs 7lbs(3KG)=84mg, so a baby would need 56Gm to kill it. That is about 2oz. That is like half of a VERY small tube.

          Of course, this is assuming that you just passed it on to the child, though you didn't, and that your toothpaste had fluoride which it may not have.

          Severity of symptoms depends upon the amount of fluoride ingested. These include abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysphagia, hypersalivation, mucosal injury, nausea, vomiting. Electrolyte abnormalities including hyperkalemia, hypocalcemia, hypoglycemia, and hypomagnesemia may occur. Neurological symptoms include headache, muscle weakness, hyperactive reflexes, muscular spasms, paresthesia seizures, tetanic contractions, and tremors. In severe cases, multi organ failure will occur. Death typically results from cardiac arrest, shock, widening of QRS, and various arrhythmias occur.[4]
          Steve
          {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1537298].message }}
          • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
            Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

            Fluoride poisoning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
            Of course, this is assuming that you just passed it on to the child, though you didn't, and that your toothpaste had fluoride which it may not have.
            I can't remember much about the toothpaste (youngest child is seven, oldest is twenty-one), but I'm alive and the kids are too. The only assumption I'm making on that basis is that we're not dead.

            Getting back to the topic, the hiccups Sylvia mentions are noticeable enough (and kind of funny ), but I definitely don't know how a pregnant woman could miss it when the baby feels it's the right time to adopt the 'head downwards' position. I realise some babies don't, but breech births are a minority as far as I know and I think you'd have to suspect a sight more than wind when the baby heaves itself round late in the pregnancy in preparation for the birth in a few weeks time. For those that have never been pregnant, just imagine the Titanic trying to turn in a bathtub
            Signature

            Plot short fiction, long fiction, even outline non-fiction * Edit the question prompts to suit your genre * Easily export text and image files for use with your word processor or Scrivener.
            {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1537384].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
      That would seem to give someone a hint as to being pregnant. This lady in the video, who graciously did an emmy award worthy reenactment for us, apparently thought she only had a bad case of constipation. I wonder what she thought was going on when the baby was doing what yours did? Maybe she thought she had a bad case of gas whenever the baby moved around? :-0

      Originally Posted by Diana Lane View Post


      You don't just feel the baby kicking either, for the last three months or so you can actually see it. I can vividly remember sitting on my sister's sofa with her one morning while we watched my bump jumping around under my t-shirt like a sack of puppies.
      Signature
      Over 50 Dating
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1536673].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Sylvia Meier
    I can't see blaming it on gas.

    I mean in any given pregnancy the baby also gets hiccups. (Natures way of helping strengthen the lungs) Now if you have never been pregnant this may be hard to imagine, but inside you there is a little creature bouncing up and down with each hiccup, hitting as high as your ribs, as low as your pelvic bone, you can really feel it when they get hiccups.

    And I mean, I went early with 4/5 and two of them were 2 months or so early and I still had noticible tell tale signs they were in there, like the movements Diana mentioned above (the oldest kids often thought there was an alien in there, granted I am really thin even when preggo, but the visible movement is quite the experience). Not to mention if they get really cramped there are times they will stretch out or try to stretch out and you end up with an actual handprint or footprint pressing out from inside your belly.

    Sylvia
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1536711].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author artwebster
    Bit of a credibility problem here, I think. Comcast Entertainment Group daren't show that video in Spain. Probably not funny enough.
    Signature

    You might not like what I say - but I believe it.
    Build it, make money, then build some more
    Some old school smarts would help - and here's to Rob Toth for his help. Bloody good stuff, even the freebies!

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1537140].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Sylvia Meier
    Art,
    They won't even let us Canucks see it LOL, but I've caught a few parts of episodes on the tv so I know what show it is.

    Sylvia
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1537244].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Lou Diamond
    Hello,
    I have a funny story to add here.
    My wife and I were trying to have our first child and she went to the doctor to see
    if everything was working right on her end.

    Well she saw the doctor and she called me up right away after the doctor told her
    that she was already pregnant.
    The first words that I said to her is: that's a great doctor that you went to.
    True story folks.
    Lou
    Signature

    Something new soon.

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1537278].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Sylvia Meier
    Oh I never thought about that, yah when they "drop" they drop and you notice it. Suddenly you can breathe again, but you have to pee WAY more. And yah I think the Titanic analogy works perfect. Even with the preemie ones and my breech one I could tell.

    Sylvia
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1537400].message }}

Trending Topics