I GAVE BIRTH 10 HOURS AFTER FINDING OUT I WAS PREGNANT<br /> <br />With VID AND PIX<br /> <br />By Todd Sasin and Hannah Hodgetts<br /> <br />A young woman revealed how, at just 16 years old, she gave birth to her first child just ten hours after learning she was pregnant. <br /> <br />Verity McConnell was enjoying a regular Saturday night at a friend’s birthday party until her life quickly changed. <br /> <br />The then teenager from Aberdeen, Scotland, started to experience severe stomach cramps and, believed it was her period or a stomach-ache. She tried to sleep it off - but the pain kept intensifying.<br /> <br />She said: “It just didn't feel right, just like something was off and then I started getting really bad stomach cramps. <br /> <br />“Every time I kept trying to go to sleep I couldn't, like it was so sore. <br /> <br />“At this point we're all probably just like ‘oh no it's nothing’.”<br /> <br />After the pain intensified throughout the night, Verity woke her mum and sister who rushed her to the local maternity hospital.<br /> <br />Unaware of what was happening, Verity faced the life-changing news that she was pregnant and already in labour!<br /> <br />Still in complete shock, the teenager gave birth to a healthy baby girl the next morning at 10:30am.<br /> <br />With no preparation for motherhood, the hospital provided everything - from clothing to nappies - to help care for the newborn.<br /> <br />Now 27 years old, Verity reflected on her birth story as her daughter is now 11 years old.<br /> <br />She added: “I’m lying there. I'm 16, I'm terrified and she [the nurse] looks at me and looks at my mum and she goes, there is definitely a baby in there and you are going to have it very soon.<br /> <br />“I've had no scans, I've had no tests, I've had no midwife appointments, I've had no checks, nothing.<br /> <br />“I think because everything was like such a rush and I was basically just running on pure adrenaline, I managed to give birth.<br /> <br />“She was seven pounds, seven ounces, so she wasn't even that small and I did all with just gas and air and pure adrenaline. <br /> <br />“I didn't have anything for this baby, not a single thing.<br /> <br />“My baby had to wear clothes that were donated to the hospital and nappies from the hospital.”<br /> <br />ENDS
