In the US state of Ohio, doctors mistook labor pains for stomach flu and sent the woman in labor home. The Daily Mail reports.
Natosha Kramer, 32, went to the hospital with complaints of abdominal pain. After examination, the doctor concluded that she had stomach flu. According to her, they were not even stopped by the fact that the ultrasound showed a baby in her birth canal.
Kramer had to return home. “I didn’t think it was labor, because I was told it was a stomach infection,” she explains. “I didn’t think I was giving birth.” The contractions continued, and a few hours later the woman gave birth without the help of doctors. However, only her parents were with her.
The mother named the newborn girl Nola. Since the child was not born in a medical facility, the woman faced difficulties in obtaining a birth certificate and state benefits.
Previously it was reported that a resident of the English city of Wigan, Greater Manchester, did not know that she was expecting a child, until she suddenly began labor. Tasha Davis, 28, did not notice a single sign of pregnancy. She was not sick in the morning, her period was not interrupted, and she blamed quarantine for her weight gain.