A woman has been left baffled stunned when she gave birth to a baby after partying at five different festivals while having no idea she was pregnant.
Sally Smith, 23, thought she had woken up with stomach cramps on March 10, 2020 - but when her sister called paramedics she was shocked to learn she was about to have a baby.
Doctors not only told her she was pregnant, but they could even see the baby's head.
The woman was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, but gave birth to her "surprise baby" Gabriel Smith in the car park in an ambulance before they could even get into the structure.
Sally says she used contraception, had periods and remained a size 10-12 throughout her pregnancy - and had no idea she was expecting because "nothing was out of the ordinary".
Throughout her surprise pregnancy, with no signs of a bump, she had the "time of her life" both enjoying and working at festivals such as Glastonbury and Parklife with her friends.
The waitress described her birth experience as the "most surreal thing ever" and said her son Gabe - who is now one year old - is the "best thing that's ever happened" to her.
Sally, of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, said: "I had no idea I was pregnant until I went into labour.
"I didn't put on any weight, had no bump and was probably skinnier then than I am now.
"If I had a drink after work I was always sick and people would joke that I was pregnant and I'd be like 'if I was pregnant, I'd be eight months pregnant now' - that was kind of the running joke at work for a while."
She said that when she was seven or eight months pregnant, she had some back pain but thought it was due to the fact that in her new job she had to move kegs and heavy items that were delivered.
The week before she gave birth, Sally travelled to Poland with some friends and during their holiday she was walking slowly, but did not imagine that she was pregnant.
She said: "Everything had an answer for - there was nothing out of the ordinary."
But when paramedics arrived at her home and told her she was about to give birth, Sally tried to remain calm and focused.
She said: "She [paramedic] walked in and I was lying on the floor and she said 'well, we can see a head, you're definitely having a baby'.
"That's when I was kind of like 'ok'. The only thing that was going through my mind was that I was in so much pain I kept trying to go to sleep.
"I would expect I would freak out but I was so calm and just like 'right, this is what I've got to do' - there's no way that I can't.
"By the time they got there, I was already pushing. I was just thinking 'right ok, I've just got to get this bit over with and we'll deal with everything else later', that's all I could really think about."
