I GAVE BIRTH 10 HOURS AFTER FINDING OUT I WAS PREGNANT
With VID AND PIX
By Todd Sasin and Hannah Hodgetts
A young woman revealed how, at just 16 years old, she gave birth to her first child just ten hours after learning she was pregnant.
Verity McConnell was enjoying a regular Saturday night at a friend’s birthday party until her life quickly changed.
The then teenager from Aberdeen, Scotland, started to experience severe stomach cramps and, believed it was her period or a stomach-ache. She tried to sleep it off - but the pain kept intensifying.
She said: “It just didn't feel right, just like something was off and then I started getting really bad stomach cramps.
“Every time I kept trying to go to sleep I couldn't, like it was so sore.
“At this point we're all probably just like ‘oh no it's nothing’.”
After the pain intensified throughout the night, Verity woke her mum and sister who rushed her to the local maternity hospital.
Unaware of what was happening, Verity faced the life-changing news that she was pregnant and already in labour!
Still in complete shock, the teenager gave birth to a healthy baby girl the next morning at 10:30am.
With no preparation for motherhood, the hospital provided everything - from clothing to nappies - to help care for the newborn.
Now 27 years old, Verity reflected on her birth story as her daughter is now 11 years old.
She added: “I’m lying there. I'm 16, I'm terrified and she [the nurse] looks at me and looks at my mum and she goes, there is definitely a baby in there and you are going to have it very soon.
“I've had no scans, I've had no tests, I've had no midwife appointments, I've had no checks, nothing.
“I think because everything was like such a rush and I was basically just running on pure adrenaline, I managed to give birth.
“She was seven pounds, seven ounces, so she wasn't even that small and I did all with just gas and air and pure adrenaline.
“I didn't have anything for this baby, not a single thing.
“My baby had to wear clothes that were donated to the hospital and nappies from the hospital.”
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