Teen Finds She's Pregnant at 11th Hour

[KIISQueen]

Saturday, March 4, 2006

A New Mexico high school basketball star who had an upset stomach on the way home from a game found to her surprise that she was about to give birth.

"I was shocked," Kayla Alire told the Santa Fe New Mexican. "I was just so amazed."

A few hours after she realized she was pregnant, Alire had given birth to a 6 pound, 4 ounce boy she named Isaiah.

Alire said she might have gained a little weight during her pregnancy but not enough that she noticed. She continued to wear the same size clothes and had no morning sickness or strange cravings for ice cream and pickles.

The 18-year-old thinks that exercising may have helped her avoid the symptoms of pregnancy. She is on the track team as well as the basketball team at Mesa Vista High in Ojo Caliente.

And pregnancy did not slow her down. She managed two 3-point shots a few hours before Isaiah's birth.

Alire plans to stay in school until graduation and to run track. Next year she hopes to be in college.

Her boyfriend never suspected her pregnancy either, but Alire said he was happy once he was convinced he had become a father.

[Jenny]

Link please...

[irwin]

www.weeklyworldnews.com

[seqiro]

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/40212.html

[Jenny]

Very interesting. heh

[welfareloser]

most "i didn't know i was pregnant til i gave birth" stories are unbelievable... but if she's tall, and really in shape, and a lil on the young side... i can buy it :P

glad the baby's okay!!!!

[avlena]

most "i didn't know i was pregnant til i gave birth" stories are unbelievable... but if she's tall, and really in shape, and a lil on the young side... i can buy it :P

glad the baby's okay!!!!

one of my husband's best friends didn't know she was pregnant until shortly before birth. She was out drinking with friends, had a stomache ache afterwards, and voila, her son was born a bit later.

with all the birth control out there now that stops your periods, unless you notice your weight gain and are knowledgable enough to recognize the signs (ie you're not just getting fat, you're also naseaus and gaining weight), how else can you tell??

[edit] i just realized bringing birth control into this discussion was a bit odd - i'm coming from the view point that nothing is 100%, and thus i'm personally scared of being that 1% that gets pregnant on birth control, because something went wrong. i have no clue if the girl in the article was on BC or not!

[welfareloser]

:stupid:

not only that... people who don't know much about it assume all pregnancies are pretty close to textbook... in reality, none of them are. i know two women who bled once a month for the entire nine months... i know women whose babies hardly kicked at all (i was one o them, apparently)... i know women who gained 15 lbs and half of it was baby... gas pains really do feel exactly like a lot of baby movements... etc. except for the actual birth, all the symptoms of pregnancy could easily be symptoms of tons of other things, too.

now, my cousin dated a woman who said she had no clue she was knocked up til labor started... despite the huge clothes she had to buy, the fact that she'd been pregnant before, and the fact that that the (supposedly premature) 9 lb kid came kicking, rolling, and howling into the world ... :hmm: far be it from me to judge. i have my doubts. s'all i'm sayin. ;)

[Thesifer]

We had a female Marine on our ship give birth on board and then got sent over to Kuwait while we were in the Persian Gulf. She didn't know she was pregnant. Or atleast claimed ot not ..

And no one else seemed to notice.

They had a problem with her kids Citizenship because he was born in the US (technically cause he was on born on the ship) But they didn't have birth certificates onboard for that circumstance.

[molecularfire]

most "i didn't know i was pregnant til i gave birth" stories are unbelievable... but if she's tall, and really in shape, and a lil on the young side... i can buy it :P

glad the baby's okay!!!!
Yeah, I hope the baby's ok. Kinda curious about how smart that kid is going to be though... figure if she didn't gain much weight during pregnancy there's a chance that she could've spent a significant amount of time while the kid was developing his brain in ketosis... I haven't looked up any research (not sure if there really is much research done on this) on the subject but somehow I don't think that ketosis is a good environment for kids to be developing a brain.

[welfareloser]

Yeah, I hope the baby's ok. Kinda curious about how smart that kid is going to be though... figure if she didn't gain much weight during pregnancy there's a chance that she could've spent a significant amount of time while the kid was developing his brain in ketosis... I haven't looked up any research (not sure if there really is much research done on this) on the subject but somehow I don't think that ketosis is a good environment for kids to be developing a brain.

reasonable concern, but really not likely if you think about it. 15 lbs is plenty, provided it's all tissue weight of kind or another (and amniotic fluid, of course) and not a bunch o damn edema weight, which is what a huge portion of the 3rd trimester weight gain is for so many of us... and a girl approaching 6 feet tall, which she likely was, is not going to look one whit different with an extra 15 lbs, or even 20. heck, i'm only 5'2, but i have a long torso, so nobody knew i was pregnant until i hit about 7 months. and if she was a good athlete - and it sounds like she was - yeah. not likely to pull that off if she's in weight-loss mode/ketosis, or if any of that weight gain was bloat. and finally, saying that she "might have" gained some weight is a clue that she's not the type to weigh herself much, or worry about how much she weighs, and the kid was a respectable 6+ lbs, so there's little reason to be concerned that she was fighting the gain...

[MikeD]

All throughout her pregnancy, she wore size zero pants, her normal size. She said she must have gained a little weight but never realized it.

She was a size zero, stayed a zero, yet was pregnant and didn't realize it? That's pretty impressive..and a bit shaky too.

You take the average size zero female, throw 15 pounds on her, and you'll notice it. :shrug:

[welfareloser]

whoa. size zero. okay... yeah. let me backpedal. we gots problems. cripes, i'm a size 4 and 15 lbs one way or t'other is a HUGE difference on me...

[molecularfire]

What really creeps me out about her is that she never had cravings for ice cream with pickles... what kind of weirdo doesn't crave ice cream with pickles. Ice cream good. Pickles good. Ice cream with pickles, good. Pregnant or not, that's just good eatin'

[Jenny]

I cream good.

You do?? :eye: :gle: :eek3: :naughty: :hehehmm:

Sorry, best laugh I've had all day!

[molecularfire]

Well, that too... but I didn't want to sound like I'm bragging. :naughty:

[welfareloser]

if a noob ever asks why this forum is called "off topic," send them to this thread.

[Dem0072]

I like pickles. Now that we all have established that, Hi, you may call me Dem... uhh... im a internet addict and uhh... i came to this topic and uhh... discovered a toothpick mexican chick gave birth to a kid.

and uhh... molecularfire likes ice cream. and pickles. perhapse he can feed the kid uhh... dill pickle flavored icecream?

In any case congrats to the mother, it's rather funny actually. You'd think people would be more concerned... you know (hope im not crossing lines here)wear the rubber, make sure shes on the pill, make sure you avoid those delightful few days out of the month (for yours and her sake), do the deed, clean the douche (even if theres nothing to clean, cant be too careful). Spermicidal rubber - better yet.

Should be no problem.

Just think of it as visiting a "stimulating" website, you want to, you will, but you know you'd better run a spyware scan afterwards before you have a "situation" on your hands, and be sure to have a firewall (rubber) and antivirus (pill). Not 100%, but it's the best you can do.

[molecularfire]

Yeah, but maybe she did do all that... nothing in the article that tells us either ways. I remember reading a study done a long time ago where they looked at condom effectiveness rates in the real world, and not in Trojan's labs and figured that the effectiveness was only about 50% because when people did use them they usually waited too long before putting them on, etc... I'm not going to make any assumptions about her but from my experience it's amazing how little people (mainly teenagers but even a bunch of adults that I've met) know about the effectiveness of birth control. Too much misinformation out there by people who want to believe nice lies instead of painful truths.

[Houdini]

Yeah, I hope the baby's ok. Kinda curious about how smart that kid is going to be though... figure if she didn't gain much weight during pregnancy there's a chance that she could've spent a significant amount of time while the kid was developing his brain in ketosis... I haven't looked up any research (not sure if there really is much research done on this) on the subject but somehow I don't think that ketosis is a good environment for kids to be developing a brain.

That's what I was thinking as well, as the brain burns glucose primarily. Hope the baby is ok. As long as there weren't any neural tube defects or anything, I'd think and hope that everything is fine. Still, it's a weird story.

[Dem0072]

Yeah, but maybe she did do all that... nothing in the article that tells us either ways. I remember reading a study done a long time ago where they looked at condom effectiveness rates in the real world, and not in Trojan's labs and figured that the effectiveness was only about 50% because when people did use them they usually waited too long before putting them on, etc... I'm not going to make any assumptions about her but from my experience it's amazing how little people (mainly teenagers but even a bunch of adults that I've met) know about the effectiveness of birth control. Too much misinformation out there by people who want to believe nice lies instead of painful truths.

The truth it is.

However I do commend her for having the kid & taking responsibility for her "hot night".

Nice to see she took on the motherly responsibility.

[molecularfire]

The truth it is.

However I do commend her for having the kid & taking responsibility for her "hot night".

Nice to see she took on the motherly responsibility.
We're assuming that she is... people can say whatever they want... won't know until they actually do or don't do it. Also, depending on how much work she's willing to put in and how much support structure she has in place, she might or might not have realistic expectations at this stage (at least from what they posted in the article).