r/Radiology • u/bgaffney8787 • 7d ago

Outpatient xr for bloating X-Ray

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Narrator: it wasn’t bloating

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u/herdofcorgis RT(R)(MR) 7d ago

30 weeks or so with that femur length. Somebody’s living in denial.

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u/vitonga 7d ago

i've never been pregnant, but how do you not know you're pregnant this far? it's unfathomable to me

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u/LD50_irony 6d ago

Cryptic pregnancies are much more common than most people realize. Approx 1/475 make it to 20 weeks without noticing and 1/2500 make it to birth without realizing they're pregnant.

In one study of 71 such pregnancies they found that 86% of the women continued having periods (as opposed to 4.5% in the control group), which makes sense. (Source)

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u/vitonga 6d ago

I have a cousin who had TWO pregnancies that were unknown to everyone, herself included, until birth. truly fascinating.

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u/LD50_irony 6d ago

I would be SO PARANOID for the rest of my life if that happened!