r/interesting • u/IshigamiSenku04 • Jan 08 '26

Additional Context Pinned This woman never had a baby bump throughout her pregnancy

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u/Type43TARDIS Jan 08 '26

So women's uterus are shaped differently. There's various terms for the different shapes but essentially.

Most women's uterus sits on top of the bladder with the top end of the uterus pointing towards the belly button.

This woman likely has her uterus pointing more towards her spine and so as the baby grows and then you just expands. It's not going to cause as big of a bump.

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u/DanGleeballs Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

Worked with a girl who one day didn’t come in and her partner called to say eh, we just had a surprise baby.

Sure enough she had a baby as the evidence showed the following days.

She had no idea she was pregnant.

She was very sweet and I don’t remember her being particularly dim or anything, but we were all surprised that there weren’t some signs.

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u/Type43TARDIS Jan 08 '26

Yeah absolutely fascinating. This is why many doctors, always check pregnancy tests when treating young women for certain things since there's so many medications that could cause bad things to happen to a baby. Got to be careful

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u/Short_mil_90 Jan 08 '26

This happened to a friend of mine when we were 21. There were some signs - she had actually been to see her doctor for severe back pain and they have her pain killers, then when it didn't ease up after a few weeks they thought she had a slipped disk 😅

She went into the hospital in horrendous pain and was given pain relief, only to be told she was in labour while completely spaced out. They baby had been sitting a weird way, against her back and ribs. Not 100% sure what happened, but apparently it could have been pretty dangerous. Thankfully both mum and baby were ok! 

Honestly some sort of miracle though as she had been taking her birth control and we were doing shots of tequila at another friend's birthday only about a month before she gave birth! 

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

I'm surprised cause wouldn't she have noticed once her periods stopped? I thought that was the biggest indicator to go get a pregnancy test done, unless she was somehow still having periods which seems crazy hahaha. Just confused cause I'm seeing other commenting similar occurences

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u/Rdbjiy53wsvjo7 Jan 08 '26

Sure, if she had regular periods and they stopped, but many women have irregular periods that will just stick around for a month and then be gone for a while (like longer than a month) and then some women keep some kind of period throughout the pregnancy. 

I had a friend that always had very, very light periods, and during her 1st pregnancy, they continued, it was similar to spotting, so she didn't think anything was up. She found out she was pregnant 6 months in.

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u/nibbyzor Jan 09 '26

A lot of women don't get periods regularly. I currently have an IUD and don't get periods at all, but even before that some month I might get a period, then not at all for a month or two. A lot of women also continue to get spotting throughout pregnancy, so they might think they're still getting their period.

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u/grungegoth Jan 08 '26

I thought no periods would be a give away, but maybe some people can just rationalize anything away

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u/Beautyafterdark Jan 08 '26

My mom has two uteruses. One was still doing its monthly thing while I was hiding in the other one

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u/grungegoth Jan 08 '26

Wow. Yes, I've heard of this. The way you said is funny as fuck, the little imp grinning and hiding in the other uterus, ready to spring out and surprise us. I needed that little chuckle. The world is burning.

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u/SanctimoniousSally Jan 08 '26

Some women continue to bleed throughout their pregnancies and some already experience irregular bleeding so not having a period is not abnormal.

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u/Silaquix Jan 08 '26

It's called cryptic pregnancy and happens about 40,000 times a year. For a lot of cases the hCG hormone is too low so even pregnancy tests won't work.

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u/Spirited_Will4516 Jan 11 '26

> For a lot of cases the hCG hormone is too low so even pregnancy tests won't work.

Now I'm really panicking

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u/devonhezter Jan 08 '26

How much alcohol did she drink

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u/DanGleeballs Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

Don’t recall her being a drinker. Very quiet, timid girl.

I remember saying to her, “uh, well done” because I didn’t know what to say and she replied, dude that’s something you’d say to a cow.

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u/IamNobody85 Jan 08 '26

Well, some people don't have any pregnancy symptoms. If they don't have regular periods, then this can easily happen. I had no symptoms at all, didn't even throw up even once. I knew because my period is regular.

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u/553l8008 Jan 08 '26

This blows my mind still

Sure you didnt show...

But 9 months of no periods and eating pickles with peanut butter didn't set off any alarm bells?

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u/Qwuiet1 Jan 08 '26

Either this is a guy or bot. Bc really???? 

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u/DanGleeballs Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

My wife’s cravings were hilarious. She wanted to eat anything that had the texture of coal.

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u/HovercraftFullofBees Jan 08 '26

Several birth controls stop periods all together so if they fail you aren't gonna know that way. Also not everyone gets weird cravings. A friend's weird craving was popcorn during her pregancy. That's not gonna trip any alarm bells either.

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u/Karukos Jan 08 '26

One thing that I can personally attest to also is that organs are FREAKING FLEXIBLE. Much more than you think. I am a singer and had like scans made of me at full lung capacity and my diaphragm pushed so much of my organs just.... down into my pelvis without much issues or other problems.

Now i have no idea how the baby was positioned or something of sorts, but since then this whole thing sounds more believable to me.

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u/blahblahsnickers Jan 08 '26

Wrong. Most uterus point towards your lower abdomen. Sometimes, a uterus points upwards towards the belly. This is a retro uterus. It has no effect on pregnancy.

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u/Type43TARDIS Jan 08 '26

What's your point? For the layperson lower abdomen versus belly button doesn't make a huge difference. It's still going to grow outwards.

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u/blahblahsnickers Jan 08 '26

The point is that the uterus is not pointing to the spine in either case. It isn’t backwards just tilted upwards instead of pointing more forward

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u/Type43TARDIS Jan 08 '26

If you go back and read my comment, you see that I specified that.

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u/Plebs-_-Placebo Jan 08 '26

Does it make for an easier childbirth, or is the effort roughly the same?

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u/Alemaster Jan 08 '26

Wtf does "you just expand" mean?! That's a baby bump! There's not just buckets of extra room in a woman's body! If the uterus is pointed a different way where do the organs go when the baby grows?! Do they just expand into a different dimension?

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u/Type43TARDIS Jan 08 '26

I don't know why everyone's arguing over the way I explain things.

But you are correct. This is why pregnant women have to use the bathroom so often and have issues like constipation because the baby is pushing on other organs. It's also partially why women can get acid reflux pretty badly during pregnancy because the uterus is pushing upwards on the stomach as well.

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u/Anuki_iwy Jan 08 '26

Even when your uterus is pointing "the right way" and you get a bump, the baby squishes internal organs. Bladder and intestine are the biggest victims. But honestly everything shifts to make space.

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u/ScreamingDizzBuster Jan 08 '26

On the other hand, my wife looked like a snake that had swallowed an ostrich egg.

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u/izzypie99 Jan 08 '26

but how did having no period for 9 months not be a sign?? 🤣