Posted on 04/19/2014 6:37:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman feels a little ill. Not knowing why she's queasy or has excruciating stomach pains, she calls for an ambulance.
Shortly after it arrives, she gives birth -- to a baby she never knew she was pregnant with.
It sounds like a scene out of reality TV show, but, for Jennifer Scollin it was just plain reality.
Scollin, who lives in Seymour gave birth to her second child early Saturday morning in an ambulance while it was parked in her driveway.
That morning, she knew something was wrong, but "I didn't know I was pregnant," Scollin said in a phone interview from her room at Griffin Hospital in Derby on Monday morning.
Scollin and her boyfriend, Matt Dillman, have a 4-year-old daughter, Kelsey, so Scollin knows what it's like to be pregnant. But, she said, not all the signs were there this time around.
"I had been feeling fine until the past few days, and I had been getting my `womanly thing' every month until last month," she said.
Scollin said she thought she'd caught a "stomach bug" that was going around -- but she didn't attribute it to a baby.
Then, on Saturday morning, she woke up with sharp stomach pains and called Dillman home from his nearby job.
"I thought I was just stressed out at work, and I was planning to call my doctor for an appointment, but as it turned out there wasn't time," Scollin said.
Scollin's water broke moments after Dillman returned home, and he called 911 when the couple realized they were having their second child.
"He was going to drive me to the hospital, but we had no chance to do that," Scollin said. "We didn't know at first it was a baby coming, but once we did, it happened fast."
The ambulance crew asked Scollin if she could walk to their vehicle, and she barely made it.
"Two pushes and he was out," she said.
She delivered a son, whom the couple named Cole Michael Thomas Dillman. Both mom and son are doing fine and were discharged from Griffin Hospital at midday Monday.
Hospital staff wouldn't speak at length about the 9-pound-3-ounce surprise Scollin delivered, but Luanne Miller, director of Griffin's Childbirth Center, said in an email that the Griffin team took the odd birth in stride.
"This sort of situation is uncommon, but we are always prepared for anything," she said.
The woman's parents, Tom and Joanne Scollin, live nearby and Dillman called them on his way home, at 4:45 a.m.
"We arrived minutes after the birth," Tom Scollin said in an email. "I was alarmed, shocked to be told by my granddaughter that her mom had a baby boy. I looked in the ambulance, and both were in excellent shape. My daughter said, `Dad, I didn't know.' "
You should get a genius award. You said what I think.
Bawaaaaaaaaa. I was depressed until I started with this thread..
Free Bammy Sta$h money likely still abounds, if you play your cards right.
I knew one woman who had this happen. She was 45 and very overweight — she just thought she had started menopause.
It seems very odd for someone of normal weight who isn’t very old.
What’s really weird is that she claims she had her menses all along.
Well, start buying. My mother (NO shack-up pretend housemate, thank you very much) told me she had regular periods during 2 of her 5 pregnancies.
Who knows what this particular woman's story is. But honestly, who cares? The fact that it's a "news story" at all is pathetic.
Now there is something we can all agree on!
I completely agree. Also, the minute someone on hetero side decided to put their member in the wrong entry ways, or use their mouths for masturbation, the perverted slippery slope began.
the pill, no-fault divorce, and “free love”.
Lol!!!
Well, I can't understand. I've had a range of sizes, from 6-11 to 10-2, and size doesn't matter in terms of feeling pregnant. Even if the baby is not very active, you still feel like you have a huge immovable rock in your gut. That, and your belly STICKS OUT WAY MORE THAN NORMAL and it's not fat rolls.
I don't get these stories at all.
Something wrong there...
Hee! At 5’3’, I felt wider than I am tall due to being short waisted. There was nowhere for my son to go but ‘out’.
There was no mistaking I was pregnant. These stories always floor me. How could a woman not know?
Sigh. That last one might have lived if she delivered at the hospital...
This is why you hear about women delivering in toilets and/or letting the newborn die: they are in denial and panic...
But I've seen it in two married women who had irregular periods and infertility who didn't realize they were pregnant until they got checked for an “ovarian cyst”...
ironically all these teenagers are often good girls, not sluts: The sluts use birth control and get abortions...
Yeah, that was my thought, as well.
According to the story, she didn't miss any periods until the last one, just before delivery. It's unusual, but not unknown.
“...family heard mom crying, so the family panicked, and instead of doing CPR on the infant, rushed to bring the bleeding teenaged mom to the hospital...”
Reminds me of our waitress at the small diner in a small town where we lived. She had called her husband at work that “it was time”. She carried her bag downstairs to wait for her husband.
As she made the landing it really WAS time.
By the time her husband came home there was mom laying at the bottom of the stairs. With baby laying on top of her tummy with a coat over both of them. A shoelace tied around the cord. She told the husband to call the ambulance.
I of course was amazed. “Aw honey. After you’ve had six of them you pretty much know what to do.”
They don’t. Fertility is what is lost in “modern” sex education. Part of it is because fertility doesn’t operate according to the left wing alphabet soup of labels for sex orientations. It inherently supports the idea that men and women are meant to be and “evolved” to produce babies and families together which is offensive to leftist progressive lovers of all things deviant.
She named the kid “Flu”
I came to the thread expecting the lady to be HUGE, she is not too big, must have really wide hips!
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