Jennifer Scollin had no idea she was pregnant until her water broke

Apr 2, 2014 06:39 GMT  ·  By

When a Connecticut woman felt ill over the weekend, she blamed it on a stomach bug that was going around. However, her bad stomach pains proved to have been caused by a totally different medical condition: she was pregnant.

Jennifer Scollin, who lives in Seymour, claimed she had no idea she was expecting before giving birth to her second child early Saturday morning. The woman woke up with an acute stomach ache and called her husband, Matt Dillman, to take her to the hospital.

The woman realized that what she considered a “stomach bug” was actually a baby only when her water broke. The couple immediately called emergency services, but she didn’t make it to the hospital.

The Newser informs us that Jennifer ended up giving birth to her son in an ambulance parked in her driveway.

“We didn't know at first it was a baby coming, but once we did it happened fast. Two pushes and he was out,” the woman said, according to Connecticut Post.

“I thought I was just stressed out at work, and I was planning to call my doctor for an appointment, but as it turned out there wasn't time,” she added.

Her baby boy weighed 9 pounds, 3 ounces (4.16 kg), and they named him Cole Michael Thomas Dillman. Both mother and child were transported to Griffin Hospital in Derby.

Scollin and her husband already have a 4-year-old daughter, Kelsey, so she most certainly knows how it feels to be pregnant, but she says that this time there were no symptoms or other signs of pregnancy.

“I had been feeling fine until the past few days, and I had been getting my ‘womanly thing’ every month until last month,” Jennifer said.

Both the mother and her baby are doing well and were already discharged from the hospital on Monday. Their family and friends were very surprised to find out Jennifer had given birth to a baby boy because nobody knew she was with child.

Luanne Miller, director of Griffin's Childbirth Center, said this type of situation was indeed rare, but highlighted that the medical staff at the hospital is always prepared for everything.

A similar case was reported in Indiana in late February, where mother-of-two Mandy Batchelor gave birth to a full-term baby boy although she didn't know she was pregnant. She said she showed no signs of pregnancy and thought she just had her “normal winter weight gain.”