Give that editor a raise
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TO: The editors and producers of “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant”
FROM: Cardiogirl
RE: The episodes and the descriptions
I truly love watching medical reality shows with every fiber of my being and the Discovery Health Channel delivers in a big way. I really can’t pick a favorite, but I did enjoy last night’s episode of “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant.” In that episode we met a divorced mother of two preteens. She was diligently taking her birth control pills while dating her new flame and continued to have her period monthly.
They also spent a lot of time on the guy’s boat.
So it wasn’t a huge stretch to guess that she was going to go into labor on the boat. In the middle of the night. While her boyfriend slept through almost all of it. While she went out on the deck to hang her feet into the water. While she almost fell off the deck and drowned in said water.
Even though she was screaming frantically and pounding on the window of the sleeping quarters where her boyfriend was snoring away.
I’ve given up wondering how a woman can go nine months without knowing she’s pregnant. I’m with you on that. What continues to surprise me are the mothers who have previously gone through labor. This particular chick thought she was losing her uterus since something was falling out of her body via her box.
Come on.
They called the Coast Guard who sent an ambulance to the marina while they motored back to shore with her hanging onto the deck for dear life, since she couldn’t stand up from a squatting position.
The guy went to the wrong dock. No ambulance waiting. This is priceless!
The 911 operator called him back and re-routed the ambulance. When they helped her off the boat and set her on the gurney the baby slipped out onto the stretcher.
Crickets chirped as everyone present went into shock.
Cue the ominous music and cut to commercial. After watching Jamie Lee Curtis expound upon about the benefits of Activia yogurt we learned that the baby was fine. Show the credits.
Another fine episode, Discovery Health. I absolutely cannot wait to watch the next episode which is described in the following way:
A new mother still nursing discovers she is pregnant with a baby as she delivers it into her shoe…
You had me at shoe. Give that editor a corner office and a 50% raise immediately.
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Wow, in her shoe! She must have big feet! Cannot help but wonder what kind of shoe? Sandal? Loafer? Snow-Shoe?
Smooches!
Val
No joke, man. I *will* report back later once I’ve viewed the episode.
Maybe she had so many children she didn’t know what to do!
Could be. I wonder if she’s got anything left in the cupboard.
Oh, my goodness, I so adore this show. Although I’m not entirely sure I believe it. I think they might be making all this stuff up — there can’t possibly be THAT many women who a) didn’t know they were pregnant, and b) delivered in a way that made for good TV.
Regardless, I’m hooked, and I cannot wait to find out how a woman delivers a baby into her shoe.
It is beyond awesome. And I always, ALWAYS have the same thought. How many women actually get to DELIVERY without having an inkling.
I wonder if, somehow, the baby came out and trickled out of her pant leg. Doesn’t seem likely, but maybe the mother was wearing stretch pants.
I’m with you, I don’t get it but nonetheless I am fascinated by it…lol
It is a humongous train wreck. Therein lies the appeal.
ROTFLMAO!!! Can I please come and watch the next episode with you?! That is too funny. Deliver a baby in a shoe? I saw this show and flipped quickly past. Now, I may sit and watch (and laugh my fool head off).
Come on over, SM. I’ll even make popcorn.
One of the agents at the real estate office I worked at didn’t know she was 7 months pregnant. She thought she had a tumor. (Que Aaaanold! It’s not a tumor.) So she made an appointment with a surgeon. She was positive it was cancer. It wasn’t, it was her daughter.
*snorts* That last line cracked me right up.
That’s. Nuts.
In her shoe….really. Where do they find these people?
My thoughts exactly. Although I did run across a internet bulletin board a while ago recruiting these women for the show.
Tell us your story…
“This particular chick thought she was losing her uterus since something was falling out of her body via her box.” BOX. Love it. Perfect euphemism. I think I shall use that henceforth.
OK I’ll have to throw this on the DVR too, so we have yet another thing to discuss. I have seen a couple of episodes. It’s certainly better than “16 and Pregnant,” which, I am ashamed to admit, I used to watch.
I just can’t figure out why these ladies didn’t realize they were pregnant. I mean, both my kids used to kick the shit out of my belly. I’m a larger girl too, but I still managed to notice my widening girth and the kicks of the baby inside. It’s mind-boggling.
Not knowing for the trimester, I can get. Maybe through the second if you’re a large woman with irregular cycles. But right now my sister just hit her third trimester and she says there is absolutely no other feeling like than a foot in your spleen.
@blue Thank you. Thank you very much. I enjoyed that line as well :)
No shit on the baby rolling and kicking and making it hard to breathe. And please. How can you go nine months and only gain five pounds?
@Liz I’m with you on it only going so far.
This particular chick thought she was losing her uterus since something was falling out of her body via her box.
I’ll take the prolapsed uterus over the kid any day of the week. That’s why God gave us Kegels.
I have heard of that, too, but I wonder what it feels like and if it’s crazily painful. But the whole concept is just weird to begin with.
An internal organ that’s sliding out. That’s like your brain slipping out of your ear.
You are hysterical! Me? I can’t watch the show because I will never understand there are that many woman (and some who’ve been pregnant before) who don’t know they’re carrying around another person.
God, I loved this post. You kill me.
Thanks Kathy! I consider that high praise.
That’s the part that I just cannot get over. If you’ve had one baby how the hell can you be in the dark until the baby slides out. And yes, there are many, many chicks on this show who deliver the baby into the toilet and they really thought they were producing a hellacious dump.
p.s. This is the fifth or sixth time I’ve gotten the bogus wavy red line under the word hellacious. That is utterly unacceptable and so it has now been added to my dictionary.
Dangling from the ship makes it even more believable. If she were just mysteriously pregnant, I would not believe it, but with the ship detail, it becomes so preposterous that you just can’t make something like that up. Since the boyfriend is relatively new, and thus the sea experiences are new, maybe she confused morning sickness for sea sickness and her increasing middle as bloat or an unusual allergy to shellfish.
I have to say the boyfriend seemed like a massive tool. I really wondered if he helps, at night, with the baby or if he “sleeps” through that as well.
sometimes i don’t know which is better, the post or the easter eggs. um how long do you think a woman could/should go before she realizes she’s pregnant? one month? two? well nine is a bit of a stretch for me. i mean after a few months and a few kicks, they must realize that’s not gas. especially if they’re having sex. never mind BC and periods. those little buggers will swim through it all and come out a big baby.
like i said, there just should be some other way to make a baby other than THAT.
SWEET! I do love those eggs.
I know! This is really suspending my disbelief but I’ll give you up to six months. That’s as far as I’m going. Not one day more.
It should be an arduous task to make a baby. Like having to walk a tight rope with only a balance stick 90 stories above the ground. I’d be childless for sure if that were the case.
No chance I’d walk a tight rope for Mr. C. He could just adopt a baby in need.
A SHOE? I was amazed when they were birthing kids into toilets on that show. The one I most remember was the first episode when the woman said, “I just thought I had bad gas and a massive BM and was gonna show it to my husband when I realized it was a baby!”
I’m sorry, but I don’t need to know about your routine of showing massive BMs to your husband…ugh!
No shit! I do love that the woman was GOING TO SHOW HER HUSBAND. That’s fantastic with a side of awesomely disastrous.
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My friend loves telling the story of how her mum nearly deliverd her into the toilet – she thinks it’s hilarious how her mum could confuse going into labour (I guess waters breaking) and needing the loo.
My Mum just tells the story of her contractions starting at 6am and then me arriving at 2pm – and I was 3 and a bit weeks premmie
Man, I don’t think I’d publicize that first story if I were the mother, but “going to the loo” is a fun colloquialism so I might consider telling that story after all.
That’s a pretty fast labor your mom had — were you her first baby?
Why the hell am I not watching this show????????
???????
I’m checking out the schedule for Discovery Health Channel right now . . .
OK, the Discovery Health Channel site is rife with popups, but I could still see that this amazing show is not on today. I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
Oh, wait! I just clicked on the baby-in-the-shoe link. It’s on TLC, not DHC. I’m there.
Why, indeed, JD?
I’m confused regarding which channel airs it first.
It shows on both channels but I thought it ran first on Discovery Health and then on TLC. I’ve caught it on both channels but I need to know when that baby is arriving in the shoe so I can see it the first time around.
Is this a comedy show ? Certainly feels like one and is definitely named like one.
What beats me is why would one want to watch this crap in the first place ?
(laughs) Only in the vaguest sense. Technically I suppose they would call this reality TV or drama. But it’s true, jack.
Why watch it? It’s hugely entertaining, but I can see how it would not appeal to men. For chicks who’ve been experiencing life in general, this does seem like a comedy show.
Oh, man…anyone who is not reading the comments is definitely missing out. “Hellacious dump” nearly made me drop the laptop, I was laughing so hard.
Please do an update on this post for those of us who do not have the Discovery Health channel. I definitely need to know what kind of shoe can accommodate a freshly-birthed infant.
Thanks absepa! My goal is to damage at least three of my readers’ laptops each year. I’m going to have to keep trying to get yours.
And I’m not kidding when I say I am waiting for that episode with bated breath.
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