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Pregnant? Me?
When one iVillager was taken ill in the night, she didn't realise that her life would be transformed in the next few hoursUnexpected pain
Just after midnight on Saturday, 2 June 2001, I started getting really bad cramps in my stomach. I thought they were period pains as I was due that day. I tried staying in bed, but I couldn't stop going to the toilet so I decided to get up and watch television.
The pains started getting worse. Because I lived on my own, I waited until 10.30am the next day before phoning my mam. As soon as she saw me, she phoned the local hospital and they sent an ambulance for us.
On arrival at the hospital I was asked to give a sample as they thought I might have a urine infection. The test came back negative but I did have a high level of protein in my water. Then the doctor examined me and gave me the biggest shock of my life.
Shocking news
Quite calmly, he said, 'Did you know you are pregnant?' My reply was something along the lines of 'don't be so stupid - I would know if I was'. I was 23 years old at the time, and it had been my birthday exactly a month before. If I had known I was pregnant, I certainly wouldn't have celebrated in the way that I did.
His next comment seemed even more outrageous: he informed me that I was in labour. My disbelieving mam demanded a pregnancy test to confirm what he was telling us. He said there was no point as I was already in labour, but he did one anyway.
When the result was positive, I just screamed and told him he was lying (among other things that I can't repeat here). I burst into tears and so did my mam. She went out to phone the rest of the family who were obviously also very shocked.
Into the labour ward
I was then transferred from Accident and Emergency to the maternity unit ten minutes away. By this time, my contractions were coming every three minutes.
The midwife was kind. She asked me what names I had chosen, and I simply told her, 'I'm not having a baby'.
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