14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, a woman in the US delivered a perfectly healthy girl just one hour after learning that she was pregnant. Apparently, the woman had no idea that she was expecting, and when arriving at the hospital, she was quite convinced that she was merely experiencing a bad case of indigestion.
The doctors who handled her case say that, as surprising as this may sound, it's not all that uncommon for women to get pregnant and remain utterly oblivious to this life-changing event. This is because it can sometimes happen for a future mother to show no symptoms while expecting.
A rather miraculous birth
It is understood that it was this past Tuesday that Katie Kropas, a 23-year-old woman currently living in the city of Weymouth in Massachusetts, US, delivered a baby girl just one hour after being told by doctors at a local hospital that she was with child.
The 23-year-old mother says that, on that day, she started experiencing what she assumed were some seriously nasty stomach pains and asked her grandmother to drive her to the emergency room. She had no idea that she was pregnant and that she was about to deliver her baby.
Luckily for her, it did not take doctors all that long to figure out what was wrong with her. The thing is that, at first, the woman refused to believe that she was in fact in labor. “At the time, I was like, this has got to be a joke,” Katie Kropas explained in an interview, as cited by Huffington Post.
Following a fairly short labor, the 23-year-old delivered a girl weighing a little over 10 pounds (about 4.5 kilograms). The mother and her child are both in good health condition. Apparently, Katie Kropas is thinking about naming her daughter Ellie, after her grandmother.
How come this woman had no idea she was expecting?
23-year-old Katie Kropas says that the never suspected that she was expecting because, when she got pregnant, she was on the pill. What's more, the woman insists that, all throughout the pregnancy, she still had regular periods. True, she did gain some weight, but put the blame on one too many treats.
Specialists explain that such pregnancies are known as cryptic ones and that, contrary to what some might assume, they are not all that rare. Thus, it's not all that uncommon for women to experience no nausea or abdominal swelling during pregnancy. In some cases, the symptoms are there but, because they are too subtle, the expecting mother fails to notice them.