"I was huge with all my pregnancies - every single one of them,"
"I kept thinking, how could there be a whole baby in me and I didn't know?"
"I'd been working, sleeping, getting my period. Everything felt normal."
"I left with a whole baby."
Keionna Dickerson experienced three previously unmistakable pregnancies with large bellies and typical fetal movements. At 31, she went to an emergency room with severe stomach and back pain and was found to be 35 weeks pregnant and in labor. Medical staff detected a dropping fetal heart rate and performed an emergency C-section. Dickerson had received no prenatal care and reported regular periods and normal daily activity. Family members named the newborn Champion while Dickerson recovered from anesthesia. Cryptic pregnancies occur in roughly 1 in 475 pregnancies after 20 weeks and about 1 in 2,500 are not discovered until delivery, and they are associated with suboptimal outcomes.
Read at TODAY.com
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