How do you not know you're pregnant?!

Yes, but not super-fat like you may be thinking. I come from a very, Very tall family. I'm six feet on the nose and I'm nowhere near the tallest of the females. My aunt is six three (the one who didn't know she was pregnant). It was also her first child. The baby laid back in her torso. She had back labor for over a day. With her second, her belly popped out like normal. My cousin who found out super-late is six two. She did have some marked swelling, but that happens with large ovarian cysts. She definitely didn't look pregnant, she looked like she'd had a big meal. Surprise! My own mom, who is only 5'10" didn't look pregnant at all until her seventh month, and she was super-skinny (she tells me I was up in her ribs, that I laid up in her torso). My aunt and my cousin were normal weights. With the gyn issues in my family, all kinds of crazy shit happens. My Granma had surprise twins (as in, she knew she was pregnant, but not that there were two in there). Another aunt gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby with an IUD inserted! All kinds of crazy shit happens when you have this big of a family with so many women.

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