Posted on 04/19/2014 6:37:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman feels a little ill. Not knowing why she's queasy or has excruciating stomach pains, she calls for an ambulance.
Shortly after it arrives, she gives birth -- to a baby she never knew she was pregnant with.
It sounds like a scene out of reality TV show, but, for Jennifer Scollin it was just plain reality.
Scollin, who lives in Seymour gave birth to her second child early Saturday morning in an ambulance while it was parked in her driveway.
That morning, she knew something was wrong, but "I didn't know I was pregnant," Scollin said in a phone interview from her room at Griffin Hospital in Derby on Monday morning.
Scollin and her boyfriend, Matt Dillman, have a 4-year-old daughter, Kelsey, so Scollin knows what it's like to be pregnant. But, she said, not all the signs were there this time around.
"I had been feeling fine until the past few days, and I had been getting my `womanly thing' every month until last month," she said.
Scollin said she thought she'd caught a "stomach bug" that was going around -- but she didn't attribute it to a baby.
Then, on Saturday morning, she woke up with sharp stomach pains and called Dillman home from his nearby job.
"I thought I was just stressed out at work, and I was planning to call my doctor for an appointment, but as it turned out there wasn't time," Scollin said.
Scollin's water broke moments after Dillman returned home, and he called 911 when the couple realized they were having their second child.
"He was going to drive me to the hospital, but we had no chance to do that," Scollin said. "We didn't know at first it was a baby coming, but once we did, it happened fast."
The ambulance crew asked Scollin if she could walk to their vehicle, and she barely made it.
"Two pushes and he was out," she said.
She delivered a son, whom the couple named Cole Michael Thomas Dillman. Both mom and son are doing fine and were discharged from Griffin Hospital at midday Monday.
Hospital staff wouldn't speak at length about the 9-pound-3-ounce surprise Scollin delivered, but Luanne Miller, director of Griffin's Childbirth Center, said in an email that the Griffin team took the odd birth in stride.
"This sort of situation is uncommon, but we are always prepared for anything," she said.
The woman's parents, Tom and Joanne Scollin, live nearby and Dillman called them on his way home, at 4:45 a.m.
"We arrived minutes after the birth," Tom Scollin said in an email. "I was alarmed, shocked to be told by my granddaughter that her mom had a baby boy. I looked in the ambulance, and both were in excellent shape. My daughter said, `Dad, I didn't know.' "
Next thing we know, they'll be dropping' 'em in the fields....
They have enough money for a house, two sport utility vehicles and tattoos but not a small wedding ceremony?
These stories always amaze me. Babies aren’t exactly calm in the womb. How does a woman not feel the movements?
It happens. I know of 2 cases personally.
And EBT to keep 'em from starving!
(see..something from the government works..)
I think people just don’t see marriage as necessary anymore. Countries that made same-sex civil unions legal in the 90s, saw that straight people declined to get married in large numbers.
The way it’s taught now sex has nothing to do with procreation, just pleasure
The weird thing is she had a baby already, so she’s not exactly unfamiliar with the experience.
I’m dumbfounded by stories like this. Seriously. How do you not feel the gymnastics going on inside you???
Never mind the other symptoms early on. I just don’t get it.
what is weird is this: "The ambulance crew asked Scollin if she could walk to their vehicle"
That was my thinking as well.
100% specially since she's already had a child...
Smartest, most observant minds are here on Free Republic. Why aren’t guys like you in charge of running everything? I missed that he was boyfriend when I first read it. Was to astounded a woman could be delivering baby and not know. Society is devolving in my humble opinion.
They should get married.
Gee. It took this long for someone to say it.
Well personally I think marriage has been so cheapened by all the freak shows (people wanting to marry same sex or their dog, tree, moon or a corpse) that I guess it seems pointless. Freak/Kink is the new normal.
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