Woman gives birth to surprise baby after having contractions on girls night out

A woman who didn’t know she was pregnant went into labour after she started having contractions on a cocktail night out with her friends.

Lavinia Stanton, 23, says welcoming surprise baby Willow into the world last month was ‘the shock of her life.’

The new mum was in a restaurant with mates when she started experiencing cramps. So she left early and decided to visit her mum, who lived nearby.

Hairdresser mum Amanda Hardcastle, 42, waited an hour before calling 111 and was told by the caller to go to hospital if her daughter’s pain continued to get worse.

The pair visited her local A&E at 2am and Lavinia was asked to do a urine sample – within minutes doctors confirmed she was in labour.

A shocked Lavinia was rushed to the labour ward and baby Willow was born via c-section, weighing 6lb 1oz at 8:54am.

Just ten hours earlier, the support worker from Halifax, Yorkshire, had been enjoying Pornstar Martinis on a night out with her two close friends – completely unaware she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant.

She said she had periods throughout the hidden pregnancy, and had even had two negative pregnancy tests just weeks before her surprise bundle of joy arrived.

Both she and the baby’s father – Cameron Wroot, 25 – have spent the last few weeks getting their heads around being first-time parents.

‘I’m still in shock,’ says Lavinia.

‘A few weeks have passed now and I’m slowly getting into the swing of things.

‘Sure, I put on a bit of weight recently but thought that was just lockdown weight like everyone else.’

She says the evening she went in to labour seemed like any other normal night.

‘During dinner I had what felt like cramp and I made a comment to my friends,’ she recalls.

‘When we were leaving it was a really bad pain so I visited my mum’s to have a lie down.

‘Even when my mum was calling 111 she even said, “it’s like she’s having contractions”, but that was just a passing comment.

‘The 111 caller couldn’t really diagnose it and suggested going to A&E if the pain didn’t go away.

‘When I got there, I thought they would say I had appendicitis or had some sort of infection.

‘The doctors saw the pain I was in and looking back I think they sort of knew.’

Lavini couldn’t believe it when doctors told her what was happening – that she was actually in labour.

‘I think I was just silent and then came out with, “are you joking?”

‘I genuinely was not expecting to be told I was not only pregnant, but my baby was on the way. I genuinely had no idea. Neither did anyone else.

‘I hadn’t done anything crazy during that time like bungee jump off a cliff but I was still working long hours throughout it.

‘I hadn’t experienced any symptoms of pregnancy. No morning sickness, no kicking in the tummy, nothing.

‘I did two pregnancy tests a few weeks before but they came back negative. My friend told me to take one when I had a really bad migraine and ended up being sick.’

The second test was a month before Lavinia gave birth. She was getting really bad stomach pains which would leave her unable to walk for a minute or so.

‘But again, that came back negative,’ she says.

‘I’d put on around a stone and a half but I put that down to lockdown weight. I didn’t look like I had a pregnant belly, just that I had gone up a dress size.

‘I had pains in my stomach the week beforehand but it felt like a cramp. Even my partner didn’t clock.

‘When he came to visit me in hospital we were speaking about it. He said that he thought I looked a bit different four days earlier. But I had Willow in me for 38 weeks.’

Despite the shock, both parents are over the moon with their new arrival.

‘At the start of the pandemic I wouldn’t have thought I’d have a daughter near the end,’ she says.

‘But she’s here and Cameron and I are in love with her!’

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