I have been pregnant approximately three years,
seven months.
At age 20, I had my tubes tied so I would not have
children anymore.
I actually got pregnant at 40.
I was extremely shocked, I'm still in shock.
My belly has continued to grow for the
three and half years, but it does grow at super low rates.
My breasts are tender, my mood swings are super bad.
I could be crying one minute, happy the next.
When I go to a doctor, they take a pregnancy test.
Of course, it does not show up on either blood or urine.
They have also given me ultrasounds.
They tell me all of negative.
The doctors are wrong.
I don't care what medical degree they have,
I am 1000% certain that I am pregnant.
The movement in my stomach is what I'm sayin' is real.
I know 1000% I am giving birth to multiples.
I think I'm carrying six babies.
I could not believe how many heartbeats I'm getting
in my belly.
That is the most overwhelming thing that anyone
can go through, especially if their tubes are tied.
My family does not believe I'm pregnant.
It has torn my family apart.
This is the hardest thing I've ever experienced
in my life.
It's real and it's misery.
I am sick and tired of being pregnant.
I just want them out.
I am done with this.
I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done with pregnancy.
I don't want it anymore, I'm done.
Okay.
Now, would you agree that this is unusual?
This is very unusual.
Okay. Very unusual.
I have to say, I'm the most non-judgmental,
open-minded person I've ever met.
Maybe not, but I really approach every situation
like, you know, hell anything's possible.
Right?
Are you approaching this conversation with the
possibility that you could be wrong?
1000% I know I'm pregnant.
Well there's really nothing for us to talk about then.
Okay.
Right, because you don't even entertain an
alternative explanation.
Well there's anything.
I could have a tumor or something going on with me
that I don't know about.
Right, that's what I mean.
That's a possibility. It is very possible.
I don't know exactly what's going on.
And I'm not asking you to abandon your belief.
You completely, totally believe that you're pregnant.
I do.
And you have a lot reasons to believe you're pregnant.
You say that your breasts have been tender,
your belly, you certainly look.
I mean, I wouldn't walk up and say you look pregnant
on the street.
I might get slapped if you weren't.
But, your belly moves, you say.
Yes, it does.
Would you like to feel it?
No.
No? (audience laughs)
You say that you have a home fetal doppler
and that you hear not just a heartbeat,
but six heartbeats?
That is correct.
So you went to the doctor.
Yes.
But you knew you had had your tubes tied
so did you go in there and say,
"What's going on?
"I can't be pregnant here."
Yeah, exactly.
And were you relieved when they said you're not?
Yeah I was, actually.
I was very relieved.
But then as the time goes on, you now, like a year
down the road, six months down the road,
I still feel the tightening and it was as the
time goes on, the tightening got more up around
my ribs, so it was hard to breathe.
But you've had ultrasounds, right?
Yes, but due to the, um, the ultrasound is
a 15 megahertz on the machines and normally the
dopplers are three to five megahertz,
so if it's too high of a megahertz,
sometimes it will not pick up.
This is amazing technology and they actually look
inside the uterus.
Yes.
But on the--
And it's surprisingly empty.
Exactly, but this pregnancy happens in the back.
It's a retro inverted uterus, so,
the pregnancy doesn't happen up front.
It's more in the back.
You've been told that you have a baby hair ultrasound.
I went in on Saturday.
She gave me a quick ultrasound, and the first thing
she did is like, "Oh the baby has a lot of hair."
And I'm like, "Oh great, we see a baby, that's awesome.
"Maybe it's at the time where we can start seeing now."
And then she's like, "Oh you need to come back."
I come back Monday, there's nobody there
except me and her.
She does the ultrasound, and she says,
"Oh you have a medical problem," and she told me a
medical problem and then she's like,
"Oh, heres the baby's hair."
It's kind of, you know, different that we say
we see hair here, but yet when I go in
the second time, "Oh, we don't see anything."