When Ally Opfer started having abdominal pains one morning, she didn’t think much of it.
She assumed she was about to get her period and was just cramping. She got ready for school and pushed through the pain all day. Her mother told her she should see a doctor, but she thought the doctor would laugh because it was just menstruation problems.
After two nights of pain, the 22-year-old couldn’t take it anymore.
The abdominal pain was so bad that she was crying out. Her mother convinced her to go to the emergency room. Before she went, her mother urged her to take a pregnancy test. Ally took one, and it came back negative, just as she expected.
The doctor examined Ally and noticed that there was a hard bump on one side of her abdomen. The doctor told her they were likely kidney stones and she would need surgery to remove them. Before taking Ally back for surgery, they performed a scan to see how large the kidney stones were and where they were located.
What they found in the scan shocked everyone.
Ally was always healthy, active, and vibrant; something like this shouldn’t be happening to someone like her. She was terrified. When the ultrasound tech checked for the stones, she noticed something else on the screen. She asked Ally if she was pregnant, but Ally insisted that she wasn’t. The ultrasound tech went to get the doctor.
The doctor did a few tests and confirmed that Ally was actually pregnant.
When they broke the news, the Ally she was in disbelief. There was no way she was pregnant. She had felt fine up until a few days ago, and she didn’t even look pregnant. Still, the doctors informed her that she was not only pregnant, she was 38 weeks pregnant, and the pain she was experiencing was labor pains.
She said:
“I felt fine, I never started showing, everything was normal. It could be because the way I was carrying or the way my son was in my stomach. I’m not really sure why I didn’t show.”
Ally’s periods had always been irregular, so when she missed a couple, she didn’t think anything of it.
She was sure she wasn’t pregnant, and when she took the pregnancy test her mom suggested, it came back negative.
She added:
“I was just shocked and didn’t really believe it – I didn’t understand. My face my mom said just went completely white and I started crying.”
There was no stopping the labor and Ally gave birth to her son a short time later.
She named the baby Oliver. Although she had found out less than an hour before delivering the baby that she was pregnant, she has no regrets and is an excellent mother.
She said:
“He is my very best friend. Our connection is so strong. He is always following me around the house. We are always playing together when I am home.”
Oliver is Ally’s first baby and her mother’s first grandchild.
While the family wasn’t prepared for a baby, they instantly fell in love with him, and now they can’t imagine their lives without him. He was born right before Christmas, and the family considers him the greatest Christmas gift they ever could have received.
Ally has a lot of support, which she is going to need moving forward. Babies are a lot of work when you know they are coming, let alone when you give birth the same day you find out you are pregnant. Ally and her family are doing a great job, and little Oliver is a happy and healthy baby.
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