Australian Woman Give Birth Without Knowing She Was Pregnant

Having just gone through the whole pregnancy period with my wife I find it even more amazing now than I did before that some women give birth to children without ever knowing  they were pregnant:

A MELBOURNE woman who had given up hope of ever having children described the unexpected birth of her son as her “Christmas miracle”.

Jody Palmer, 38, had been trying to have a baby for 20 years and didn’t know she was pregnant when she woke up with excruciating stomach pains about 3am on Saturday.

Less than three hours later, she gave birth to a boy, Jesse, with the help of her partner, Tim Martin.

“I woke Tim up at about 5am and said: ‘You have to call an ambulance because I’m really sick’,” Ms Palmer said. “Then I felt something and I thought I was having a miscarriage or an alien.”

A triple zero operator guided Mr Martin through the surprise labour in the bathroom of their Reservoir home.

“I heard the paramedic say, ‘if she wants to push, she can push,’ so I gave an almighty push and the next minute the baby came flying out with the cord wrapped around his neck,” Ms Palmer said.

Mr Martin said yesterday he was still in shock.

“I didn’t have much time to think, but the girl, Andrea, on the phone who helped me out was great,” Mr Martin said.

Jesse weighed a tiny 1.114kg on arrival and was quickly transferred to the Royal Women’s Hospital’s neo-natal intensive care unit where he will stay for the next few months.

Ms Palmer said being a mother was the only thing she had ever wanted from life.

“I’d given up hope I would ever hold my own child, so this was a Christmas miracle,” she said. “I had been told I was not able to conceive and was even seeing a psychiatrist to deal with being childless.”  [Herald-Sun]