If it's a football, it's a girl -- a basketball's a boy. So they say.

[pnwmom]

But what if it's a BEACH BALL?

Gulp-worthy photo at link:

http://www.overthelimit.info/health/2009/01/08/caesarean-section-carries-health-risk-for-mother-and-child/

There is a serious point in the article, however -- elective repeat C-sections shouldn't be performed any time before the 39th week. Even a few days earlier raises risk for a baby.

[madokie]

1. Damn thats hard to look at

[pnwmom]

2. The rest of her looks amazingly thin, considering.

Wonder how many she was carrying. Has to be more than one, don't you think?

[deaniac21]

3. The saying goes that if it's a photo shop, it's a hermaphrodite

[petronius]

4. I'm a bit skeptical of the images on that site - for example, another pregnancy shot:

http://www.overthelimit.info/health/2008/12/29/women-gives-birth-to-giant/#more-4161

[pnwmom]

8. That one's hysterical. Though I swear,

that's how mine FELT toward the end.

[ogneopasno]

11. That photo has been debunked, and I think the bikini shot is fake, too.

[notadmblnd]

5. She'll never get rid of the extra skin after she delivers that litter

Why do women want to do that to themselves? Have litters instead of babies?

[pnwmom]

10. They don't always do it on purpose. n/t

[greguganus]

6. Friend of mine has 6 kids, all delivered by C-section

because her bone structure will not allow her to have a normal delivery. I asked her, "Why don't you get the doctor to install a zipper?"

[TahitiNut]

7. Jeezuz! How MANY fetuses are IN there??

Goodfreakinggrief! :wow:

[YOY]

12. That doesn't look like she's pregnant...it looks liek she's got a huge ass boil.

n.t.

[TahitiNut]

13. Really. It looks more like a fibroid tumor or something. The rest of her body ...

... doesn't show the kinds of 'development' associated with pregnancy, as far as I can tell.

[YOY]

14. That's a hell of a fibroid.

My wife has a pendicular fibroid and it's small enough to be invisible.

[Hekate]

9. She's really ... cantilevered, isn't she?

:wow:

[madmom]

15. Sorry folks, I can say that stuff like this certainly DOES happen. While I don't know about

the actual size of the abdomen in the first pic, when I was pregnant with my first, I looked just like that, I weighed 118 lbs. a friend asked if he could take my pic in profile because he'd never seen such a huge belly, when I sat I had no lap at all. My son was delivered by c-section because he was 11 lbs. 13 1/2 oz. and 22" long. The nurse said it may have killed us both if I had to deliver normally. This was back in "73. As for the second pic showing the foot, that also happened but it was his butt when the doc put cold stethoscope on belly he (baby) reared up (no pun intended)saw a perfect tiny little butt well maybe not so little considering. Everyone thought I was having twins, but it was just one big boy.

[pnwmom]

16. I can't imagine how uncomfortable you must have been.

Glad you made it!