A woman admitted to the hospital to have her ovaries removed came home with a baby boy instead, after being told that she was 32 weeks pregnant.
Rebecca Oldman, 25, had been suffering from painful cramps and after three scans, two blood tests and six pregnancy tests to try to analyse her symptoms, doctors advised her to have her ovaries removed.
However, during the operation at Middlemore Hospital in New Zealand, hospital staff woke her up and told her she was pregnant after all.
Oldman was quickly sent for an emergency caesarean to take out baby James.
The mother-of-two said: “I was facing not being able to have any more children because they thought there were problems with my ovaries and all of a sudden we had a son.”
“Even though it was short notice it was better than waking up and being handed a baby.”
Her stomach cramps are now assumed to have been caused by the baby being lodged tightly along her back.
“He was lodged in, even with the caesarean they had to use forceps to get him out,” she said.
“They think the pain was caused by him trying to move around but he couldn’t.”
According to the doctors, only one in 500 mothers are unaware of their pregnancy until in the later stages.
Doctors are now investigating how the pregnancy was missed entirely.
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