An 18-year-old mother has brought a shocker to the world by giving birth to her baby even without her knowledge.
Ebony Stevenson from Oldham, Greater Manchester did not know she was pregnant, but on Dec 2nd, she went to bed not feeling well, but was rushed to the hospital and placed under an induced coma. she woke up on the 6th finding out she had a baby.
The lady who currently studies Sports Physiotherapy in the college had not developed a bump nor experienced any morning sickness and had not missed a period until she had her first baby.
She had no idea she was expecting as her unborn baby was hidden in one of two uteruses, in a condition called uterus didelphys, this is a rare condition among women.
In her case, only one of them had a fallopian tube to carry an egg, while the other had none – meaning her chances of conception should have been slim.
When she was rushed to the hospital, it was then discovered that she had suffered from preeclampsia which had caused the seizures, and she was pregnant.
The result was communicated to her mother immediately and said that the baby needed to be delivered right away.
She underwent an emergency caesarean on Monday 3 December and gave birth to a baby girl at 1.32am who weighed 7lbs 10ozs.
Ebony woke on December 6 to discover she had given birth and was suddenly a mother.
She has now got her head around the news and is enjoying bonding with her daughter, who she has named Elodie.
The first time mum said: ‘I didn’t think I even wanted kids, at least not for another 10 years and never expected to be a young mum.
‘Waking up from a coma to be told I had been pregnant and had given birth to a baby girl was overwhelming to say the least.
‘Meeting my baby was so surreal. It felt like an out of body experience.
‘I worried I wouldn’t bond with my daughter because I had no time to get my head around her arrival, but I think she’s amazing.
‘It’s an absolute miracle. I wouldn’t change Elodie for the world.’
Ebony’s mother added that ‘At around 10pm that night I heard Ebony shout down to me that her headache had gotten really bad.
‘She started being sick so I rushed her into the bathroom and before I knew it she was having a seizure on the bathroom floor.
‘I rang 999 immediately as she’d never had anything like this before.’
In the five minutes it took the ambulance to arrive, Ebony had five more seizures. When paramedics treated Elodie they asked if she was pregnant.
‘Despite me insisting she couldn’t be pregnant, the paramedics were certain she was, and to my shock, a bump had appeared at her stomach,’ Sheree said.
‘They think the ferocity of the seizures could have caused the baby to move, making it suddenly visible.’
Ebony was rushed to Royal Oldham Hospital, near Manchester, where she was sedated before being rushed for an emergency caesarean that same morning.
Proud grandmother Sheree was the first to hold the surprise baby, who was born weighing 7lbs 10oz.
‘It was a strange moment because I had no time to prepare for it,’ Sheree said.
‘I was over the moon that she was happy and healthy, but couldn’t help but worry about my own little girl who remained in a coma.’
