A trainee flight attendant claims she was passed as ‘fit to fly’ just weeks before giving birth to a surprise full-term baby in the toilet.
Lucy Jones says she had the baby after she thought she felt the need for a dash to the bathroom.
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The unwitting first-time mum started having back and stomach aches on the evening of March 14 but dismissed it as menstrual pain, as her period was due at the end of the week.
But while in bed the next morning, the 22-year-old’s stomach ‘flipped’.
After dashing to the toilet she heard a “crash” - only to look down and discover “two feet sticking out” of the bowl.
The shock of it left her shouting “There’s a baby!”
Lucy, from the British city of Bristol, claims she had no idea she was expecting.
She had no symptoms throughout her pregnancy, took contraception daily and still had periods.
Remarkably, the cabin crew member trainee says she had a medical examination - when she would have been eight months pregnant - and two pregnancy tests came back as negative.
The now full-time mum said she worked 70-hour weeks, drank often and went clubbing about 15 times throughout her pregnancy - including just three days before she gave birth.
Despite her now four-month-old daughter Ruby “magically arriving” with no notice, Lucy said she’s taken to motherhood like a duck to water.
Photos captured by the mum-of-one show her out clubbing with a drink in hand, blissfully unaware she was expecting - as she dons tight-fitting shift dresses with no sign of a bump.
After a whirlwind experience, she is keen to raise awareness of cryptic pregnancies - when a woman is unaware she is pregnant.
“I had no bump, no sickness and had a period every month,” Lucy said.
“I had two negative pregnancy tests, because of my new cabin crew job I had to take them for that.
“I would have been eight months pregnant when I went for my medical and did the pregnancy tests.
“He [the doctor] pressed all down my stomach and body, and he suspected nothing.
“I was still taking the pill. I took it every day and had been on it for six or seven years.
“I went up one dress size after Christmas and then I went back down again, and I put that down to eating and drinking a lot.”
Lucy claims she received her fit-to-fly certificate the month before she gave birth.
She said she’d often work long hours as a pub manager and had her last shift just 10 days before having Ruby.
“I did a week’s training [for cabin crew], came home for two days, and that’s when she magically arrived,” Lucy said.
“I had tummy and back ache the night before but I was due my period at the end of the week so just put it down to that.
“I woke up in the morning, had a bath and just thought I’d sleep it off before I went back to Bristol for work.
“I was in bed for about 45 minutes and it felt like my stomach flipped, it’s the only way I can describe it, and I just felt like I needed a poo.
“I ran to the toilet and gave birth to my daughter in the toilet at home by myself.
“I heard a crash and looked down and there was two feet sticking out of the toilet.
“I didn’t have any pain. Noone could believe that.”
Lucy wrapped her daughter in a towel before placing her in the kitchen sink.
She was home alone at the time, and called her dad. Her parents arrived back about 10 minutes later.
They also rang for an ambulance while they were on their way.
Lucy said: “I had no idea I was pregnant until I saw the baby in the toilet.
“I was hysterically screaming saying ‘there’s a baby’ and they were expecting there to be a miscarriage, not a full-sized seven-pound [3.1kg] baby in their kitchen sink.
“I was terrified. I didn’t know what had hit me. It was just the shock. I felt numb in a way.
“When my parents walked through the door it all went a bit blurry because I think the shock just took over.
“I can’t really remember anything then until about 1pm when I was in the hospital.”
Shortly after the paramedics arrived, Lucy was taken to hospital by ambulance.
Lucy said the situation did not feel real till about day four or five.
“My dad rang around the family and when he told everyone there was just like silence on the phone, no one could believe it,” she said.
“Even now as a family, we still can’t get our heads around what happened.
“It’s one of the stories that you read about, but you never think it would be you.”
The aspiring cabin crew member had enjoyed weekly personal training sessions throughout her pregnancy.
“I was still doing everything - going out drinking, partying, to festivals and the horse racing,” Lucy said.
“In my personal training sessions I’d be doing squats, sit ups, press ups on the rowing machine and the bike and lifting weights.
“I used to go out drinking twice to three times a month.
“I went clubbing probably 10 to 15 times when I was pregnant. I went clubbing the Saturday before I gave birth.”
Lucy describes her little girl as happy, content and chilled.
And she says she feels she’s adapted well and quickly to motherhood.
“You don’t believe it and you sort of shame upon other people thinking, ‘How did they not know that they were pregnant?’” she said.
“Whereas now I’ve actually lived through it, I kind of regret thinking that, as I know what other people have been through now.
“It is a real thing, it does happen.
“I’ve gone on the injection now, so hopefully I won’t have any more surprises.
“Like my dad said, if I have any more he’d like at least nine months notice.”
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