That’s not appendicitis; it’s a baby boy!

March 12, 2010 by Shawn Douglas
Filed under: News

Hull Royal Infirmary

A British woman who thought she had appendicitis unexpectedly gave birth to a baby boy instead.

Kimberley Robinson, of Hull, England, had early in the year suffered problems with her appendix. So when she woke at 6:30 a.m. on February 1 with mild stomach pain and shortness of breathe, she feared that she was having a recurrence of appendix problems.

Robinson, 22, called her sister-in-law Deanne Norris who then rang for an ambulance, taking Robinson to Hull Royal Infirmary.

“Even as I got out of the ambulance I didn’t know what was happening, but literally as I walked into A&E I could feel something happening to me,” Robinson told the Yorkshire Post.

“I was placed on a bed in A&E and a curtain was pulled across, and when I got into that position I could see the baby’s head. I was in complete shock.”

At 10:40 a.m., in “absolute shock”, Robinson gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Mackenzie, who weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces.

“It wasn’t really painful and it happened so quickly. As soon as I saw him fully it was an incredible feeling. All the shock disappeared and I fell in love with him automatically,” she said.

Doctors at the hospital were surprised that Robinson, separated from the baby’s father, didn’t know she was pregnant, calling such an instance “very unusual.”

“The doctors told me I had been pregnant for exactly nine months, I just can’t believe I didn’t know,” she said. “My periods had been as normal and I hadn’t had morning sickness or anything like that.”

The little bundle caught Robinson completely off guard, not having any supplies at all for the child. “Because I had no idea I was pregnant, I didn’t have any clothes for him or things such as prams and car seats,” she told the Hull Daily Mail.

“All my friends were really nice, though, and got things sorted out for me,” she added.

Now five weeks old, baby Mackenzie is reportedly in excellent health.