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A teenager says she had absolutely no clue she was pregnant until she was in labour and five-centimetres dilated.
Bri Blanton, 18, was rushed to hospital after experiencing crippling stomach cramps that left her doubled over in pain - but she was shocked to be told that the pain she was feeling was contractions. You can see her talk about her incredibly journey to motherhood here:
Bri had absolutely no time to let the news soak in, because just two hours after she was told she was pregnant she was a mum to a little girl she named Oakleigh.
Bri, a nanny, from the upstate of South Carolina, US, said: “I woke up early and thought I had wet myself.
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“I was doubled over in pain. When they told me I was pregnant and giving birth I was in complete shock.
“I kept saying to my mum: 'This isn’t possible.'
“They put her on me after she was born, and my mum said I looked like a deer in the headlights looking at her.
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“It took me a good four hours after she was born to calm down.
“I told my friends I’d had a baby and they were like ‘but you weren’t pregnant last week.’
“They couldn’t believe it.”
Bri went to bed as normal on September 7 but woke up in the early hours of the next day in agony and thinking she had wet the bed.
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Bri’s mum Jennifer Blackwell, 36, took her daughter to Spartanburg Medical Centre, Spartanburg, South Carolina, US, and her daughter explained her symptoms to a nurse.
She said: “The nurse asked if she could check Bri’s cervix. Then the nurse looked at me really eyes wide and said: 'She’s dilated and in labour.'
“I was worried for her because she was about to have a baby that she wasn’t prepared for.
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“We didn’t have anything at home for a baby.”
Bri said she had no baby bump and experienced zero of the typical side-effects expecting mums get such as morning sickness or cravings.
Even more incredibly, Jennifer told Bri to take a test after she threw up following a ‘heavy meal’ but it came back negative.
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Jennifer said: “She took the test in front of me. It said negative, so I was like ‘phew’.
“We didn’t think about it again.
“To us it was like she went to bed and woke up pregnant. She’d been in a bikini at eight months pregnant with no bump and even did a negative pregnancy test. We had no idea.
“But Oakleigh is a blessing. Watching Bri be a mum is really beautiful."
Topics: Parenting
Claire Reid