Runner’s pain was surprise baby

An aspiring half-marathon runner whose two-hour training session left her with a sore back, was stunned to discover that the pain was not due to a pulled muscle or a slipped disc, but that she was about to give birth.

Trish Staine, from Minnesota says she had no idea she was pregnant. 

Mrs Staine says she noticed what she now realises were labour pains after her run at noon on Sunday but did not go to the hospital until the following day. 

There have been several stories like this in the last few years, I’m not sure if this is a recent thing or I have only recently started to notice it, but my reaction has been, and always will be, how the f**k can you not know your pregnant.

It’s a nine-month process and there are several fairly obvious clues along the way, I still don’t understand how a woman can go the entire time and not realise until she looks down and sees a baby dangling between her legs and suddenly it all makes sense.    

The only conceivable explanation I can think of as to why this sort of thing happens is that one in every million women who are expecting don’t exhibit the usual signs, weight gain, fluctuating emotions etc. because I just don’t see how you cannot know right up until the point you go into labour.