Megan Isherwood needed urgent medical support after the pain got too much but she wasn’t suffering with appendicitis – and it left nurses at the hospital staggered
A young woman was rushed to hospital with suspected appendicitis – and ended up giving birth to a baby boy a few hours later.
Megan Isherwood, 26, needed medical support after suffering severe pains in her right side before she started vomiting up blood. Doctors at Blackpool Hospital feared she had appendicitis and ordered ultrasound and CT scans but it wasn’t long before the incredible truth was discovered.
To their surprise, they saw a little head and foot and realised that she was pregnant – even though she had taken a test days earlier which was negative. The bar manager dashed to Burnley Hospital, but on the way she gave birth to little Jackson who weighed 4.6lbs on Sept 9.
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Megan, from Burnley, Lancashire, said: “I was speechless – I couldn’t believe what had just happened. I had no bump, no symptoms at all, he just came out of nowhere. I wouldn’t change anything for it other than I wish Jackson had let me know that he was around before he was born. He is a miracle.”
On the day Megan gave birth she woke up at 4 pm feeling ill and asked her friend, Gabbie Rose, 26, to drop off a bottle of Coke as she felt her blood sugar was low. Megan said: “When Gabbie arrived, she told me I looked terrible as I was hunched over and that I needed to go to the hospital.
“I have a high pain threshold, so she knew I had something wrong with me.” Gabbie then called 111 and an ambulance arrived within an hour. The mum has revealed that paramedics checked her over and assumed she was suffering from appendicitis due to the pain she was feeling on the right side of her body as well as her high heart rate and nausea.
She arrived a Blackburn hospital at 5:30 pm and was taken to the intensive care unit. Megan was next in line to be seen by a doctor when “blood gushed” out of her and soaked the bed. She was rushed into a room and told how “15 doctors were crowded around her trying to find out what was wrong”.
She said: “They decided to do a CT scan as well as an ultrasound to rule out pregnancy but that was when they found a head and a foot. They then blue-lighted me to Burnley hospital as they have a midwifery. On the way there the paramedic said to me if I need to push just let them know and push hard.
“As soon as she said that, it was like something clicked and I just needed to push. The next thing you know they told me ‘congratulations it is a boy’. I was so shocked and flustered, I couldn’t believe what had just happened.”
Jackson was born 33 weeks early and just minutes after he was born he had turned blue and stopped breathing. But luckily paramedics managed to bring him back to life before they arrived at the hospital. Jackson was taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Megan was rushed into the birth suite and then put in her own room on the postnatal ward.
There she was told that both she and Jackson had an infection and were diagnosed with sepsis, but both made a full recovery after being placed on antibiotics. Just hours after arriving at the hospital Megan was allowed to see Jackson for the first time. She said: “It still didn’t feel real.
“I struggled to get my head around what had happened – I was thinking to myself where have you come from.” A couple of days later Jackson stopped breathing again but was brought back around by doctors once more. Megan said: “He didn’t make himself known before he was born but he definitely did after almost dying twice. He is such a brave boy.”
He was eventually discharged on September 25 and has been happy at home with mum since. She believes the father is a man she is not in a relationship with. Megan has also told how her local community came together to help her out with supplies after word got around she had given birth unexpectedly.
Megan said: “The community came together and helped me out with supplies for Jackson which was very kind. We have everything we need now. Jackson is doing absolutely amazing. When I told my family they couldn’t believe it – and neither still can I”.