A student who had no idea she was even pregnant until she gave birth in a hospital toilet after being admitted with stomach pains has welcomed her ‘miracle’ baby.
Lalene Malik was rushed to A&E at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, London, by her family after suffering an excruciating stomach ache at home in Greenford, west London, on March 26.
The 23-year-old, who said she had been prescribed the contraceptive pill five months earlier and took two negative pregnancy tests in February, believed she must have been constipated.
But her mother, Sumra, had an ‘intuition’ that something was wrong when her daughter began crying in pain after going to the hospital bathroom while waiting to be seen, and sounded the alarm with nearby doctors.
Ms Malik was about to flush when baby Mohammed Ibrahim’s tiny arm was spotted in the bowl, leaving her terrified that her and her son’s lives were in danger.
She believes the baby may have been stuck for up to seven minutes before he was rescued by medics.
The new mother said: ‘I was gone. My mind was blank. I was put in another room because obviously I was crying and my mum was crying.
‘It was a complete shock and a trauma for both of us and I felt that my life was in danger.
‘(My mum) started crying and (said) to me: “Don’t you know you have a baby?” From then on I was pale.’
Doctors who retrieved the baby said he ‘looked lifeless’ and was not breathing. But resuscitation efforts were successful.
Ibrahim was born full-term and is now healthy after he was given oxygen and monitored carefully by hospital staff.
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Cryptic pregnancy
Oh dear!
are you trying to be sarcastic?