It was the shock of a lifetime for Katie Kropas when, after suffering from lower back pains, she was told by doctors that she was pregnant.<\/p>\n
But that wasn’t all.<\/p>\n
Within one hour of discovering she was carrying a baby, the 23-year-old had given birth to at healthy 10lb, two ounce baby girl.<\/p>\n
The new mum, from Weymouth, Massachusetts was taken to hospital on Tuesday after complaining of back problems – but was soon told that she was actually in labour.<\/p>\n
“I came in with lower back pain on Tuesday morning,” Katie told local news station, WCVB TV.<\/p>\n
“Later that night they put me in for an ultrasound, they took one look and rushed me off into labour.”<\/p>\n
And it was less than one hour later that Katie was holding her new baby girl in her arms.<\/p>\n
“I found out that I was having a baby at 10.15pm and she was born at 11.06pm.”<\/p>\n
But the new mum maintains she had no idea that she was pregnant.<\/p>\n
“I started to feel like I had put on some weight but I had been [thinking] maybe that was just Christmas,” she explained.<\/p>\n
A doctor at South Shore hospital said: “Most people will say, ‘how could you not have known?’, but if you’ve never experienced it before they [pregnant women] don’t really know what they should be experiencing or feeling.”<\/p>\n
Katie has decided to name her new baby Ellie, after her grandmother.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the New York Daily News, Katie said people in the hospital had been joking about her situation.<\/p>\n
“They just say, ‘you were carrying around 10 extra pounds and you didn’t know it?’ I don’t know why I didn’t know. I mean, I’m just excited and I appreciate everyone who is helping.”<\/p>\n
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Source: Mirror.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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