Rebecca Oldham found herself
suffering painful cramps, and after multiple tests, New Zealand doctors decided
to remove her ovaries in November, believing them to be the cause of the
problem.
But then they woke the
25-year-old up to deliver some very surprising news: Instead of removing her
ovaries, they were about to perform an emergency caesarean section ...
to deliver a 9-pound baby boy,
with whom she was 32 weeks pregnant. "I was facing not being able to have
any more children because they thought there were problems with my ovaries and
all of a sudden we had a son," Oldham told the New Zealand Herald.
She and her partner already had a
20-month-old daughter, Hayley, at the time surprise son James was born.
"When he cried at night I would say, 'ssshhhh Hayley,' and then remember
it wasn't her and that I had a newborn baby," Oldham said.
"People say 'how could you
not know?' But I really didn't." Doctors are baffled as to how the
advanced pregnancy didn't show up on any tests (the following were reportedly
completed: three scans, two blood tests, and six pregnancy tests), though they
told her the cramps were likely caused by the baby being so snugly lodged along
her back.
Oldham says she's about to
receive findings of the hospital's investigation and says she hopes it will
provide some answers. How often does a woman make it so late into pregnancy
without knowing she's pregnant? Per Jezebel, estimates range from 1 in 500 pregnancies
to 1 in 7,000.
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