Woman goes to hospital with stomach ache, gives birth to twins
These stories occur on a perennial basis. Okay, this is me being really ignorant. But how can somebody not know that they are pregnant? Someone from my Primary School class gave birth at fifteen without knowing she was pregnant, but, to be honest, she was never the brightest button in the box, and, maybe, at fifteen, there's a whole element of denial.
A colleague had constant stomach upsets, and blamed the canteen at the Food Science Laboratory (yeah...?). Three of the chaps knew she was pregnant by looking at her face, but didn't like to say, assuming she wanted to keep it quiet. But even she knew at three months. I asked her why she hadn't realised earlier - she said she had very irregular periods, so didn't notice a missed one.
But, seriously, how can someone carry twins to (more-or-less) full term without knowing?
I'm not having a go - I'm simply baffled and curious.
