"KTVU spoke with family members of the new parents, Kayla and Kasey Thompson. Kasey Thompson's sister Lacey Paxman tells KTVU that Kayla woke in the couple's RV with abdominal pains Wednesday morning, which she didn't realize were labor pains, as she did not know she was pregnant. Fellow Burning Man attendees who were nurses or had medical backgrounds rushed to assist, including one OB-GYN who was still wearing only his underwear."
"Many of you are probably wondering why she went to Burning Man so pregnant, or how a person could not know they were pregnant. But it's an actual medical condition known as a cryptic pregnancy, wherein the mother does not know she is pregnant, and this condition affects about one out of every 2,500 births. The family insists the Thompsons would not have gone to Burning Man had they known Kayle was pregnant and so close to birth."
Burning Man concluded amid reports that Pershing County authorities were working to identify a victim in an apparent murder at the event. A Utah couple arrived in an RV, and the wife, Kayla Thompson, did not know she was pregnant. Kayla woke with abdominal pains on Wednesday morning and did not recognize labor because she had a cryptic pregnancy. Fellow attendees with medical training, including nurses and an OB-GYN, assisted with the birth. The family says they would not have attended had they known Kayla was so close to delivery. The three-pound, 9.6-ounce baby girl, named Aurora, was airlifted to a neonatal ICU in Reno. Cryptic pregnancies affect about one in 2,500 births.
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