A young woman in Washington state has revealed the stomach pains that brought her to the hospital turned out to be labor pains…and she gave birth a few hours later. Laren Dawn Nelson says she was 18 at the time and attended her senior prom without ever knowing she was pregnant.
Assuming she had a stomach virus, Laren recalls, “The next thing I know the nurse looks at me and says you’re pregnant – and you’re also in labor.” She says she immediately “started laughing and crying at the same time.” What the teen experienced is called a “cryptic pregnancy” which occurs when someone doesn’t realize they’re expecting until a late trimester or as they’re going into labor. Nelson named the baby Silas and said “he’s perfectly healthy and he is living his best life.”