Unknown Pregnancy Stories

These a true stories about patients who I have treated who have been pregnant or delivered a baby while not previously realising that they were pregnant…

Unknown Pregnancy Story 1.

Dispatch: “Car 714… we have a 25 year old female with severe abdomen pain and suspected food poisoning… currently located in the public toilet at…”

Car 714: “Copy that, on case…”

We arrived and entered the public toilet, which was located in a public park. We instantly heard the sound of a baby crying… I paused and suddenly had a bad feeling that we had been given the wrong information about the job that we were attending.

I paused at the toilet door and asked if she was okay…

“I’m okay, but I’ve got the worst diarrhoea in my life… and… I’m bleeding…” She says… very distressed…

“Can I come in…” – I ask, hesitantly…

I’m greeted to come in…

As I open the door… I’m shocked to find the young lady still bearing down… and I could clearly hear the baby crying in the toilet…

“Can I get in there… and help your baby out…” – I ask in a calm voice that I really didn’t feel…

The patient appeared to go a further shade of white…

“What baby… I’m don’t have a baby!”

This, I wasn’t expecting…

“You’ve just had a baby…” – I inform her… almost in disbelief that she hasn’t realised that she’s just had a baby…

She then broke down crying… repeately saying… “How can this be… I wasn’t pregnant… no… I’ve just eaten something I shouldn’t have…”

As she calmed down and eventually started to get over the shock of it all (or at least start to accept that she had just had a baby) we cleaned her baby and found that everything was surprisingly well…

Then, as we took the woman and her baby to hospital… she started to explain to us that she had been on a serious diet, and her Dad had kept telling her to stop drinking beer because she was starting to get a real beer gut…

Both Mum and baby were okay in the end…