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A Massachusetts couple was shocked to discover they were expecting a baby -- about an hour before she was born. Katherine ("Katie") Kropas and Dan Keefe are the proud and surprised parents of a little girl, Ellen Olivia, who weighed in at 10 lbs., 2 ozs! "Ellie" was named after Katie's mother who drove her to the hospital with stomach pains.
The shock of all of this aside, I think it's sweet to see Ellen being used. WDYT of Ellen Olivia?
The shock of all of this aside, I think it's sweet to see Ellen being used. WDYT of Ellen Olivia?
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Ellen Olivia is a beautiful combo!
I wonder... if more parents had to come up with names on the fly rather than thinking about it for months, how that would affect naming styles. Would there be less "kre8tyve" style names, more honouring, or the opposite? Hmm!
And being pregnant must not feel anything like I imagine it would if you can have a 10 lb human inside you and not have any idea something might be up. That's both reassuring and terrifying.
I wonder... if more parents had to come up with names on the fly rather than thinking about it for months, how that would affect naming styles. Would there be less "kre8tyve" style names, more honouring, or the opposite? Hmm!
And being pregnant must not feel anything like I imagine it would if you can have a 10 lb human inside you and not have any idea something might be up. That's both reassuring and terrifying.
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"And being pregnant must not feel anything like I imagine it would if you can have a 10 lb human inside you and not have any idea something might be up. That's both reassuring and terrifying."
Ha! Trust me, 99.99% of us know we're pregnant.
The thought crossed my mind as well if having no time to dwell on names would change the way a person named their child. Something tells me the answer is yes. I changed my mind several times over nine months -- especially with my second child.
Ha! Trust me, 99.99% of us know we're pregnant.
The thought crossed my mind as well if having no time to dwell on names would change the way a person named their child. Something tells me the answer is yes. I changed my mind several times over nine months -- especially with my second child.
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And think about the fact that we all at least think about names more regularly than the general pop. If you were someone who gave it no thought it would be really on the spot. I think I'd default to something with lots of nns like Elizabeth, or a close relatives name, as she did with her mom.
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Ellen is okay, but nothing really special, in my opinion. It was one of my two favorite names when I was ten, but then I branched out. At least it's not overused, trendy, and typical.
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Ellen is a great name. Obviously not very much thought went into choosing that; it's just a good thing she didn't have to call a cab and let Leroy or Seymour drive her. Too bad she gets the dime-a-dozen Ellie right from the start, though of course since Ellen is her grandma, they probably do need to distinguish the two of them.
Ridiculous that she could be so far along with such a huge baby and not know it.
Ridiculous that she could be so far along with such a huge baby and not know it.
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that's what I don't get ...
To go all the way to term and have no clue? After a certain point the baby moves inside you and that does not feel like anything else you could ever experience. And that is a huge baby.
To go all the way to term and have no clue? After a certain point the baby moves inside you and that does not feel like anything else you could ever experience. And that is a huge baby.
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I didn't experience any fetal movement that I couldn't have attributed to something else if I didn't know I was pregnant. In my case, I did know, because I missed periods and thought, "I wonder if this means I'm pregnant?" and had a test done, but I can see how it's possible.
There was some television show about nothing but women who didn't know they were pregnant until they had the baby, but I don't remember the title. In one case, the couple were very against having children and had always been adamant that they weren't going to have any, and of all of the couples featured to whom this happened, they were the only ones to consider adoption once the baby had been born. In the end, though, they kept him.
There was some television show about nothing but women who didn't know they were pregnant until they had the baby, but I don't remember the title. In one case, the couple were very against having children and had always been adamant that they weren't going to have any, and of all of the couples featured to whom this happened, they were the only ones to consider adoption once the baby had been born. In the end, though, they kept him.
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I'm not sure if it was the same one but I saw one where the couple was older and settled on not having kids, they were kind of a "biker" couple"
There's one where the girl gives birth while on the toilet on Halloween night. She felt constipated, ended up popping out a baby instead, and then her boyfriend thought it was a Halloween prank
There's one where the girl gives birth while on the toilet on Halloween night. She felt constipated, ended up popping out a baby instead, and then her boyfriend thought it was a Halloween prank
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That is truly horrifying. 0_o
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"I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant".
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LOL. It's so obvious now that you remind me.
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That's okay. I asked my Zumba instructor what the name of that "crayon" song was, and he told me it was "Crayon". This was last night. :P
This message was edited 1/9/2015, 2:07 PM
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The article said the mom is a caterer supervisor and hasn't missed a day of work in two years. Around Christmas, she noticed her feet began to swell but thought it was because she was working 50-hour weeks. Other than that, she said she had no clue. The doctor quoted in the piece said it happens more often than people think. I don't get it either because my babies MOVED and as already stated, Ellie is a large baby! Still, this mom is a larger woman and I suppose it is possible (well, obviously, it is possible, duh). :-)
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I mean, she can explain away a lot of the symptoms of pregnancy but...
she missed her period for nine months!
What woman misses her monthly week of horror more than two or three times and doesn't reach the conclusion that she's pregnant, hitting the menopause and/or -really- needs to see a doctor?!
I mean, you can say she's large, that she blamed her feet on working, that she never knew what a baby inside her felt like... but I can't think of a sensible, healthy grown woman who'd ignore missing her periods for that amount of time.
I mean... I don't want to believe this...
she missed her period for nine months!
What woman misses her monthly week of horror more than two or three times and doesn't reach the conclusion that she's pregnant, hitting the menopause and/or -really- needs to see a doctor?!
I mean, you can say she's large, that she blamed her feet on working, that she never knew what a baby inside her felt like... but I can't think of a sensible, healthy grown woman who'd ignore missing her periods for that amount of time.
I mean... I don't want to believe this...
This message was edited 1/9/2015, 12:36 PM
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There are three possibilities:
One, that she continued to have light periods throughout her pregnancy, at the time her periods would normally have come, and just thought her periods were lighter. This can happen.
Two, that she had always had irregular and/or infrequent periods anyway and so thought nothing of it. Women with infrequent and/or irregular periods are usually less fertile than women who have regular periods, and sometimes they are stubbornly infertile, but it can happen that they do get pregnant.
Third possibility is that she's as obtuse as you say.
You can believe it. I saw a couple of episodes of a television show all about it.
One, that she continued to have light periods throughout her pregnancy, at the time her periods would normally have come, and just thought her periods were lighter. This can happen.
Two, that she had always had irregular and/or infrequent periods anyway and so thought nothing of it. Women with infrequent and/or irregular periods are usually less fertile than women who have regular periods, and sometimes they are stubbornly infertile, but it can happen that they do get pregnant.
Third possibility is that she's as obtuse as you say.
You can believe it. I saw a couple of episodes of a television show all about it.
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I had a friend who didn't know she was pregnant until she was three weeks away from her due date. Her periods had always been wonky and she was using a new method of birth control, so she chalked it up to that. It happens.
This message was edited 1/9/2015, 1:26 PM
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If she was very irregular and often skipped a period or three, or she had spotting the whole time, I can sort of see where she could convince herself nothing strange was going on. But again, it smacks of either stupidity or deep denial. Pregnancy has such a constellation of symptoms, not least includes breast changes. And like I said, the feeling of a near-full-term baby moving around inside you cannot be mistaken for anything else. It's just not believable.
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There's a whole tv show dedicated to this. It's not as uncommon as you'd think. All the episodes of "I didn't know I was pregnant" that I've seen, the mothers explain away symptoms to other logocal things or they really do display no symptoms. Many say they never felt the baby move in a way that signified to them that there was anything alive moving around. And some never gain weight or gain only like 5-10 lbs and think nothing of it.
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