Author Alice Eve Cohen spoke with Harry Smith about the surprise of her life, when what she thought was a tumor turned out to be a baby.
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Not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you Alice ?
This video raised all kinds of red flags for me. I worked in medical offices for two decades, and I know that if a woman came in with symptoms of abdominal pain and discomfort, one of the first routine tests would be a urine pregnancy test. If that woman was premenopausal - which this woman was - that test would have been done as part of a standard battery of tests prior to x-rays, CT, ultrasound, etc. Only if that test was negative would the woman have been subjected to x-rays, etc.
I also know that there is no way a woman is six months pregnant before realizing she has a baby inside her unless there is some deep psychological issue. Tumors do not kick. They do not move around.
And she considered aborting in her third trimester? Really and truly? Just because she found a place that was willing to do that? I really don't understand why or how she thought that was an option worth considering for more than one second, since she had no definitive evidence that anything was wrong with the fetus she was carrying.
This story is just all wrong.
FYI, as incredible as it sounds to most women, it IS possible not to feel fetal movement or see it from the outside. In a small number of women, the position of the placenta and the amount of belly fat but deaden the impact. It's also possible not to have much sensitivity -- some women barely even feel their contractions when in labor.
Most of the women featured on "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" are overweight, you will notice.
'Most of the women featured on "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" are overweight, you will notice.'
Are you suggesting that this woman was overweight?
Which of the pictures in this report make shows an overweight woman to you?
She claims she visited a host of doctors, and that eventually SHE, not they, recognized the 'classic, obvious symptoms of pregnancy,' yet NONE of the multitude of doctors and specialists she claims she saw, could make that diagnosis?
This story really makes no sense.
They weren't that wrong.....
A baby is a sort of a tumor.
Except that after it is exorcized it continuse to develop and become more demanding until it eventually learns to resent you.
Either type can lead to an early death.
Baby turns out to be baby.
Is it an IQ test? You know, like…
Baby is to tumor as health care is to...?
a. right turn on red.
b. welfare.
c. the insurance industry.
d. Michael Jackson.
Either my evil twin is a fibroid tumor or I'm a fibroid's evil twin.
My mother had trouble conceiving and my older sister is a DES baby, ten years of marriage in the making. Six years after my sister was born, my mother, at age 38, experienced a variety of symptoms that she thought were cancer.
After several tests yielding no diagnosis (but some very lucky rabbits) my mother finally turned to her uncle, an ob/gyn. He examined her and confirmed that I was going to arrive about six months later. This was surprising news, as my mother had trouble conceiving, and happy news, as my parents were looking into adopting a second child.
As I grew, a lump "the size of a grapefruit" protruded from Mom's belly. "Is that the baby's head?" she asked during several check-ups. She was told "no" and not to worry about it.
Six months after my complication-free birth, my mother still had some of the symptoms she had during the pregnancy. As there was a history of cancer in the family--an aunt died from ovarian cancer--Mom underwent a radical hysterectomy.
Having a baby at age 39 was pushing the envelope in 1960. From all indications, my family is happy that my mother did.
But the jury is still out on who is the evil twin.
Time for a new doctor.
If they had done an unltrasound they would have sen the baby. But insurance companies wont pay for it most of the time.
Doctors often make mistakes, big ones. And so does the nursing staff etc. You must always have your wits with you, and don't take everything they say at face value. There's ignorance, laziness, and venal motives in our medical industry as in all others. Always ask questions, and give yourself time to really think about whatever is recommended.
this woman was vicitmized by the medical community all around. first DES, then told she's deformed and infertile, then they miss her pregnancy, then told it's a hermaphrodite, then told it's too late to have an abortion, then told it will deformed and the child will never be normal...
they were wrong about everything.
I think she was in denial. It happened to a former coworker of mine.
This woman should be closely monitored for PPD.
She listened to those who for many years said she could not conceive. They were highly educated doctors.
Imagine this - many in the GOP think that we do not rely on medicine enough and are worried we will dispense with much of t as part of the proposal for universal health care!
i agree about the whole denial thing, but not every woman who was pregnant and didn't know was in denial.
The kid is now 9. It's a little late for PPD!
Whoopsie! I must be tired. Time for go to bed.
Oh, I don't know, depends on the kid. ;)
Thank Bush Jr. for making it impossible to sue for valid malpractice the medical industry.
Oh please. Can we sue for stupidity on average folks? Come off it. Somethings off on this story and you all just stick with it.
Yep.
And for vilifying womens rights groups, pro-choicers, and sex education in schools.
Women today have forgotten how important it is to know your bodies.
I can't defend women who refuse to learn about "where babies come from" or "how NOT to get pregnant".
Several years ago, in a town nearby, a woman about Alice's age was given the same diagnosis...a uterine tumor. She underwent a hysterectomy and a baby was removed in the process and died. The doctor was sued big time.
AH! horrible.
my sister was told that it would be very difficult for her to get pregnant. at 35, they diagnosed her with a bladder infection and had her on antibiotics and then they diagnosed her with interstitial cystitis, only to figure out later that she was pregnant.
she was on birth control, but apparently the antibiotics lessened their effectivness. she didn't have IC afterall, which is good.
I went through much the same thing. I was told that because of medical issues I would not be able to have children. I went to the doctor thinking I had a virus.
My "virus" is now about to start 7th grade and is taller than I am.
Apparently they lessen their effectivness - OF COURSE THEY DO and the nurses and docs TELL YOU THAT.
If it was a matter of overlapping incidences, thats one thing but women are told to use precaution when on antibiotics.
That's the saddest thing I've ever heard. I would probably DIE if that happened to me.
They didn't think to run a pregnancy test as a precaution? The cheapest and easiest test they do, probably. wtf?
That is indeed pretty crazy. Every female patient who comes into the emergency room or has any kind of non-emergency surgery gets a urine pregnancy test, unless they are over 60 or already pregnant. It's the standard of care in even my impoverished county hospital, and has been for at least 5 years. I guess cases like this are why we develop the rules.
I know. It's a quick, cheap test that saves the hospital from lawsuits if they apply a treatment that hurts the fetus. WTF?
if you are doing it and then not doin it every month should you p on a strip or something
Unless you were exposed to a dangerous chemical in the womb and told you are infertile, as this woman was.
This is horrible. How could any doctor miss this! I am so happy this women is so balanced!
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First Posted: 07-13-09 02:35 PM | Updated: 07-13-09 02:42 PM