A YOUNG woman rushed to hospital with suspected appendicitis ended up giving birth to a baby boy.
Megan Isherwood, 26, was rushed to hospital after suffering severe pains in her right side and vomiting up blood.
Megan Isherwood called an ambulance when she was in pain and paramedics checked her over and assumed she was suffering from appendicitis
Despite having had a negative pregnancy test days earlier – she later discovered she was actually giving birth to a baby
Doctors at Hospital feared she hadand ordered ultrasound and CT scans.
To their surprise they saw a little head and foot and realised that she was pregnant – even though she had taken a days earlier which was negative.
The bar manager was then blue-lighted to Burnley hospital but on the way she gave birth to little Jackson who weighed 4.6lbs on Sept 9.
Megan, from Burnley, Lancs, said: “I was speechless – I couldn’t believe what had just happened.
“I had no bump, no symptoms at all, he just came out of nowhere.
“I wouldn’t change anything for it other than I wish Jackson had let me know that he was around before he was born.
“He is a miracle.”
On the day Megan gave birth she woke up at 4 pm feeling ill and asked her friend, Gabbie Rose, 26, to drop off a bottle of Coke as she felt her blood sugar was low.
Megan said: “When Gabbie arrived, she told me I looked terrible as I was hunched over and that I needed to go to the hospital.
“I have a high pain threshold, so she knew I had something wrong with me.”
Gabbie then called 111 and an ambulance arrived within an hour.
The mum has revealed that paramedics checked her over and assumed she was suffering from due to the pain she was feeling on the right side of her body as well as her high heart rate and nausea.
She arrived a Blackburn hospital at 5:30 pm and was taken to the intensive care unit.
Baby Jackson, who weighed 4.6lbs, arrived on September 9
Megan was next in line to be seen by a doctor when “blood gushed” out of her and soaked the bed.
She was rushed into a room and told how “15 doctors were crowded around her trying to find out what was wrong”.
She said: “They decided to do a CT scan as well as an ultrasound to rule out but that was when they found a head and a foot.
“They then blue-lighted me to Burnley hospital as they have a midwifery.
I wouldn’t change anything for it other than I wish Jackson had let me know that he was around before he was born
Megan Isherwood
“On the way there the paramedic said to me if I need to push just let them know and push hard.
“As soon as she said that, it was like something clicked and I just needed to push.
“The next thing you know they told me ‘congratulations it is a boy’.
“I was so shocked and flustered, I couldn’t believe what had just happened.”
Megan was initially ‘shocked and flustered’ at the news she was pregnant
Jackson was taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit after being born 33 weeks early
BABY ARRIVAL
Jackson was born 33 weeks early and just minutes after he was born he had turned blue and stopped breathing.
But luckily paramedics managed to bring him back to life before they arrived at the hospital.
Jackson was taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Megan was rushed into the birth suite and then put in her own room on the postnatal ward.
They decided to do a CT scan as well as an ultrasound to rule out pregnancy but that was when they found a head and a foot
Megan Isherwood
There she was told that both she and Jackson had an infection and were diagnosed with , but both made a full recovery after being placed on antibiotics.
Just hours after arriving at the hospital Megan was allowed to see Jackson for the first time.
She said: “It still didn’t feel real.
“I struggled to get my head around what had happened – I was thinking to myself where have you come from.”
Both Megan and Jackson had an infection and were diagnosed with sepsis, but both made a full recovery
SCARY INCIDENT
A couple of days later Jackson stopped breathing again but was brought back around by doctors once more.
Megan said: “He didn’t make himself known before he was born but he definitely did after almost dying twice.
“He is such a brave boy.”
He was eventually discharged on September 25 and has been happy at home with mum since.
Megan was able to take Jackson home on September 25
Both mum and baby are doing well at home
She believes the father is a man she is not in a relationship with.
Megan has also told how her local community came together to help her out with supplies after word got around she had given birth unexpectedly.
Megan said: “The community came together and helped me out with supplies for Jackson which was very kind.
“We have everything we need now.
“Jackson is doing absolutely amazing.
“When I told my family they couldn’t believe it – and neither still can I”.
What is a cryptic pregnancy?
What is a “cryptic pregnancy”?
By medical definition, a cryptic pregnancy is one that is failed to be detected by medical testing.
There may be signs there, but essentially a cryptic pregnancy is one where these signs are not obvious to the woman, or she denies they are there.
A pregnancy test may come back negative even after the woman has missed her period for a number of medical reasons.
If she does get an ultrasound despite a negative pregnancy test, it’s possible a pregnancy won’t show up in the first trimester because of problems such as the way the uterus is shaped, or simply because the medic doesn’t spend time looking for it if they don’t believe it’s there.
Most people notice symptoms of pregnancy such as tender and swollen breasts, mood swings, fatigue, and nausea early on in their pregnancy.
But this could be dismissed by the woman as being caused by something else, such as a condition or diet.
There are also cases where someone become pregnant in their early teens before they understand the symptoms of pregnancy.
Cryptic pregnancies aren’t common, but they’re not unheard of, either. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women might not be aware of their pregnancies in up 1 in 475 cases, according to a British Medical Journal report.
Some women are more likely to have a cryptic pregnancy than others because they believe it is not possible for them to have a child.
It includes those with PCOS, who may have been told it will be difficult for them to have a child, and women on birth control pills, because the woman thinks the pill will protect her entirely from conceiving.
Women with low body fat may also fail to detect they are pregnant if their periods are irregular or absent as a result of being so slim.
Babies born from a cryptic pregnancy tend to be underweight, and the lack of prenatal care may affect their development.
But what about the bump?
A women may have a smaller bump – one she and others around her deem insignificant – for a number of reasons.
TikTok sensation NHS surgeon explained: “Most women have an anteverted , [meaning] it’s slightly tilted forwards.
“But one in five have a backwards tilt towards the spine.”
The GP explained that for some women, their uterus may remain tiled backwards for the duration of their pregnancy.
“This ‘backwards growth’ could hide any bump,” he stated.
Other factors that could result in an invisible pregnancy could be “previous surgery, endometriosis and other gynaecological conditions [that] could scar the utroseacral ligament”.
“These are basically biological anchors which keep the uterus fixed to the spine and inside the pelvic cavities,” Dr Rajan explained.
“If these are stiff because of scarring, these ligaments can literally hold the uterus back and stop it from protruding too far out.”
People who are taller also have more of a chance of not displaying a noticeable bump when they’re expecting, the NHS went on.
“If you’re taller, you’ll have a longer torso so there’ll be more space for the uterus to develop upwards rather than just outwards,” he said, possibly giving the appearance of a small bump.
And if you have particularly “well developed” abs, this may make your uterus “develop closer to your core rather than protruding out”.
