While most expecting moms find out they’re pregnant through the tell-tale signs of pregnancy like a missed period, an expanding baby bump, and strange food cravings, others have virtually no symptoms.
24-year-old Sasha Hood had always planned on having children and even talked about the idea with her 29-year-old boyfriend Marc Jepson, but figure it was something she’d have years to think about. To be sure she didn’t have an unplanned pregnancy, Hood took her birth control like clockwork, but it seems it didn’t work quite like she had hoped.
For nine months, Hood felt completely normal, had no baby bump, and even continued to get her period but one night in March, she started getting stomach cramps that were relatively mild. When they started getting worse, however, she made an appointment at the doctor where she discovered she was pregnant.
“Even now I look back and wonder how I didn’t know I was pregnant. But I took my pill like clockwork. Until it happened to me, I never imagined any woman could have a baby and not realise she was pregnant,” Hood said. Doctors estimated she was about 28 to 32 weeks pregnant, and sent her home once the pain subsided.
“I simply couldn’t believe it at first. But then relieved Sasha didn’t have some terrible illness, I think I said something like ‘this is crazy’ and then I said something like ‘that’s great news…’ But then I had no idea Sasha was actually nine months gone,” Marc said about the moment Sasha called after getting out of the doctor’s office.
Shortly after getting home, the pain came back worse than before, and Marc called for an ambulance. “I’d had a bath to help soothe the pains but as I lay on the bathroom floor I felt the urge to push,” Hood said. 15 minutes later, baby Theo was born.
“It was a frightening moment as Marc and I realised the cord was round the baby’s neck. Luckily Marc followed all the instructions from the paramedic on the phone and managed to free Theo. Hearing him finally cry was wonderful,” Sasha said.
“But even though we were totally unprepared, we are so happy to have Theo,’ says Sasha of her healthy 7lb 6oz baby boy. “We both still look back and can’t believe we didn’t know we were having a baby. But he is absolutely adorable and now we can’t imagine life without him.”
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24-Year-Old Gives Birth Just Hours After Finding Out She’s Pregnant is an article from: LifeDaily