A 45-year-old mother from Bristol, England, experienced the shock of her life during a family vacation in Toronto when she gave birth to a healthy baby girl without knowing she was pregnant. Helen Green was staying at a hotel with her husband, Michael, and their 6-year-old daughter Darcy when she went into labor in the middle of the night on May 21. While this may sound like something from one of the most shocking true crime cases, cryptic pregnancies are a real medical phenomenon.
Around 1:45 a.m., Helen began experiencing stomach pain and went to the hotel bathroom. What happened next stunned the entire family. Helen’s body took over, and she delivered a full-term baby weighing 8 pounds, 3 ounces. The mother had no idea she was carrying a child throughout her entire pregnancy.
