Surprise Pregnancy
A Reddit user had all the symptoms of being pregnant, which she assumed was impossible since she was on birth control. But it turns out that she was actually expecting a baby. At that time, the Redditor and her boyfriend were certain that they wanted to give her up but that all changed after a medical emergency.
“Earlier this year I went to the doctor to get some medication for my acne as my skin had been really bad. For the medication I was going to go on I had to take a pregnancy test. No worries there, as I was on birth control, or so I thought.
The pregnancy test came back positive but I was so convinced it was wrong I honestly didn’t care too much at that point. After a few blood tests to try and see how far along I was it looked like I was miscarrying, the hormone levels were all over the place from where they should be for early pregnancy.
The doctor ordered a scan and I went along fully prepared to see an empty uterus and be told I had miscarried. At the scan they found that I wasn’t miscarrying, and that I was actually 27 weeks and 5 days. That’s like 6 months pregnant.
Obviously I was pretty shocked, honestly I almost passed out and vomited. I just didn’t know how to process that information. Luckily my boyfriend was with me and somehow managed to calm me down. We talked about it and decided that neither of us were ready to be parents. Obviously at that late stage in pregnancy there wasn’t a choice of terminating but we decided we’d adopt.
A week or two later I woke up with cramps so went down to the ER just to check things out. Sitting in the waiting room I felt a sensation like my waters breaking, but when I looked down it was all blood. After being rushed in to surgery and multiple blood transfusions later I woke up to the doctors telling me that I had a little girl and that she was fine.
She was kept in NICU for 8 weeks which gave us enough time to get our heads around everything and decide that we couldn’t give her up. Now she’s a little happy 6 month old and my life is completely different!”