Woman Visits Doctor Thinking She's 9 Weeks Pregnant, Gets Shock of Her Life

A woman has recorded the moment she went for her first ultrasound and saw that something wasn't quite right.

TikTok user Malandra (@agv.xx6) thought she was nine weeks pregnant, but the scan revealed it was actually 22 weeks.

In the caption, the mom of three wrote: "I'll never forget this moment," adding, "[I] ended up finding out the gender of my baby two days later."

During the video, which has received 1.9 million views, she can be heard behind the camera saying: "I was not expecting that."

In the comments section, she explains: "I was getting periods, so when they told me I was pregnant I thought I was early on, turns out I was halfway [through] my pregnancy."

She explains that she had a 6-month-old baby at the time and was experiencing "light periods." So she went to the doctor to get an IUD, a form of birth control that is inserted into the uterus. However, a test in the doctor's clinic revealed she was pregnant.

While bleeding during the first trimester of pregnancy can sometimes occur, it is not a period because women stop ovulating Bleeding and/or pain during the first stages of early pregnancy doesn't always mean there is a problem, according to London's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

However, it can sometimes be a warning sign of a miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy or a molar pregnancy, which means there is a problem with the fertilized egg.

In the comments, the woman said she thought the purpose of the scan was to measure the baby. However, there was no need as she was already in her second trimester.

One in five people confirms a pregnancy past seven weeks, according to research done by Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, a program based at the University of California, San Francisco. But finding out the gender through an ultrasound is usually done at 18 to 22 weeks, according to the website BabyCenter.

The parenting site says a baby's genitalia begin to develop as early as six weeks, and male and female fetuses appear quite similar in an ultrasound until approximately 14 weeks. So distinguishing between them can be challenging at this stage.

Recently, Newsweek published a story about a couple that had two gender reveals for a baby girl, only to find out they are having a boy.

So far, the new TikTok clip has amassed over 42,000 likes and plenty of comments, including one from Malandra, who wrote that it was the "quickest pregnancy of all time."

It turns out she is not alone. Other women have experienced the same thing.

One user said: "Dr said I was 16 weeks. Turns out I was actually 30 weeks. Surprise!"

"Found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks lmao. How nice this would've been. This pregnancy has felt like 9 years," said another.

Newsweek reached out to @agv.xx6 for comment via TikTok and could not verify the details of the case.

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