A woman who thought she had food poisoning was stunned when she went into a toilet and "a baby came sliding out".
First-time mum Patricia Crawford, who had a cryptic pregnancy, was feeling unwell and was up all night, but put it down to something that she had eaten earlier.
It wasn't a bad case of food poisoning - Ms Crawford was in labour but had no idea she was pregnant until the healthy baby boy surprised her and her husband, Evan Darragh.
Ms Crawford said: “By the time I got back to the toilet area all of a sudden a baby came sliding out.
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Cradling her son James, new mum, from Keyport, New Jersey, in the US, told TV station News 12: “It was just like, ‘Oh my God. What are we even going to do?'”
A baby was the last thing she and Mr Darragh were expecting when she gave birth on March 28 - exactly one year after her father died suddenly.
She said: “We [didn’t] have a diaper, a wipe, an outfit, a onesie. Nothing."
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Ms Crawford said she didn't notice any major symptoms of pregnancy.
Occasionally she had what felt like an upset stomach.
The couple had been trying for a baby.
Ms Crawford local media the baby arrived exactly a year to the day of her father's death.
The boy, named after her father William James, was born at 5am, the time her dad would wake up to go to work, she added.
Ms Crawford said: “I think my sister said it best. She [said] it was like my dad came from heaven and said, ‘You will no longer be sad on March 28 ever again’.
"And it’s really the best thing in the world."
In March, a woman in Bangladesh told how she gave birth to a boy as expected, but was stunned nearly a month later when she unexpectedly gave birth to twins who were in a second uterus.
In 2002, a research paper in the British Medical Journal found that a cryptic pregnancy, or stealth pregnancy, happens in about one in every 2,500 pregnancies.
It is estimated there are about 320 cases in the UK every year, the Guardian reported.
