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What I remember vividly about my one and only pregnancy 11 yrs. ago is the really undescribable feeling that comes with your uterus slowly expanding above and out from the pelvic bones. Like a very long (and by long I mean day by day, month by month) building and omniprescent ache. Not really pain but a barely there sensation. (I'm curious, to all you other gals who have had babies, is this a normal part of pregnancy that never gets talked about?).
Just based on that sensation alone I find it hard to believe a woman wouldn't know she was pregnant. And a baby kicking doesn't exactly feel like mere gas bubbles moving through your intestines, it's more like the infamous gut busting scene in the movie "Alien", like there is (and there is) some foreign being pushing on you from the inside out (without the blood, gore and pain of course!).
I think in the case of women like this, it's simply mind over body. They don't want to acknowledge they are pregnant and somehow convince themselves they aren't, even though the fact is indesputable.
Ali
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