Yes, flowerpower...
It must have been a re-broadcast...I've seen it, too. I found it just as amazing that these ladies went through it with husbands living right there with them.

I'm glad you got to see the show. Doesn't make Peggy's story so far-fetched at all, does it?

Some women don't show and some women have irregular periods.

But did those women get huge rear ends? That is what annoyed me about the Peggy situation. She got sorta chubby all over but mostly in her rear and then suddenly she gives birth. I felt cheated that the show tricked us instead of allowing us to conjecture her storyline as we do with the other characters. I mean, really, she looked the same right before she gave birth as she did several months earlier and she wore those shirtwaist dresses which should have made her pregnancy pretty obvious. I suppose anything's possible but I thought she was eating too many sandwiches like her officemates thought and I think that's what the writers intended for me to think.

I sorta think those women who don't know, don't want to know. There are so many changes with pregnancy that anyone would have to have at least a few. Denial is a strong emotion that would account for a lot of those cases, imo. I don't think Peggy was one of those extremely rare situations. Peggy was either totally naive(even though her sister was and had been pregnant) or totally in denial. Denial seems the most obvious to me.

Interesting post, flowerpower!

flowerpower...YOU DID THIS!...
Everyone on this forum was bubbling with speculation and conjecture about Peggy's weight gain and possible pregnancy. We Maddicts wore each other out with the pro and con of the argument. Sorry, you weren't here, midcenturymod....and went through it alone and feeling gypped.

As I've shared before, my pregnancy experience was almost as big a surprise as Peggy's. I learned very early not to question the unique physical possibilities of pregnancy and birth. Each woman is unique, and birth is a unique experience for every woman and each child. It's been that way through all previous generations of man. There are many births that are similar, and many others that are out of the ordinary, too. In addition, the writers deliberately put things in to make is rationalize what we know versus what we have seen. Makes for endless discussion...

Here is where I will retire from this topic...

Sorry, everyone...