tonyn@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I’m no obstetrician but something the size and complexity of a 7 month fetus does not get absorbed, it comes out. There is likely some misinformation involved along the way.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I’m no obstetrician but something the size and complexity of a 7 month fetus does not get absorbed, it comes out. There is likely some misinformation involved along the way.
KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
No, no misinformation. Everything I wrote in the post is exact what my mom told me about her pregnancy and my birth, and what she told me was what the doctors told her what happened.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
He’s saying the misinformation came from your mom or the doctors.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Why would OP’s mother bring up the ultrasound in the first place if she were deliberately trying to conceal anything?
I could see the twin being stillborn and the doctors thinking it was easier to tell the mother it had “vanished”, though.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 12 hours ago
TBF, subconscious feelings of guilt often come out in seemingly illogical ways such as this. Not saying that’s definitely what happened, but it’s a possibility not to be summarily dismissed, either.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
This is what I was getting at.
KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I understand that, but i don’t think the misinformation was coming from my mother if that were the case. She told me exactly what happened and exactly what the doctors told her.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
My mom is what’s known as an ‘unreliable medical historian’… she very often hears something completely different from what her doctor tells her. I don’t want to say that she lies, because I think a ‘lie’ is a conscious choice that people make… but I also don’t think she’s incapable of understanding what her doctor tells her. I think she just has an idea of what the doctor is going to say, and when it is different she has a hard time letting go of her expectation and replacing it with reality.
I have no idea if this relates to your mother or situation in any way… but if I took everything my mom said her doctor told her then she is the most unique medical specimen ever. Her diabetes is unlike anyone else’s because she can still eat whatever she wants, when she wants… her doctor said that it’s not a problem. And her diabetes has changed from type 2 to type 1. As she was preparing for spine surgery she was convinced that she’d be back home, on her own in 2 weeks (it was closer to 9 months). She swears that the only surgeon that her primary care doctor wants her to see is 2 states over, 6 hours from any of her family (I’ve looked him up, he’s decent, but by no means a unique surgeon). And lots of other strange stuff over the years, including when I was a child.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
How sure are you about that? She would know if she gave birth twice, and a 7 month old fetus doesn’t vanish. There’s something she’s not telling you.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
You’re mom didn’t tell you the truth, plain and simple. Whether she knows the truth, that’s another story. You can’t re-absorb a whole baby, with bones and all that.
KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You calling my momma a liar‽
11111one11111@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Which is all great but doesnt eliminate the likelihood of misinformation being the cause. Someone tryjng to protect another from what really happened. Whst does your dad say of the day?
KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
He didnt show up until after I had been born.
So he doesn’t really have any sorta say
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 14 hours ago
That’s a little odd. Is he your biological father?