[KenP]

You've got to be kidding me. The woman quit smoking, gained 30 lbs, then found out she was pregnant the day before giving birth. WTF???

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226983,00.html

Washington Woman Unaware of Pregnancy Until Day Before Baby is Born

Thursday, November 02, 2006


BELLEVUE, Wash. ? Amanda Brisendine attributed the 30 pounds she gained in the past year to an abandoned smoking habit and rich food. So when she went to the hospital with sharp stomach pain, she wasn't expecting to leave with a newborn son.

"I don't know how I didn't know. I just didn't know," Brisendine said Tuesday from her bed at Overlake Medical Center's Birthing Center, where she delivered Alexander Joseph Britt by Caesarean section.

Doctors agree her case is not rare.

George Macones, chairman of the OB/GYN department at Washington University in St. Louis, said he's seen about a dozen cases in his nearly 20-year career.

The pregnancy isn't always obvious when a woman is overweight, or a woman will have spotting or bleeding during the pregnancy and mistake it for menstruation, said Macones, who specializes in high-risk pregnancies.

The 26-year-old Renton woman went....