A teenager has told how she gave birth alone in her bedroom - after mistaking pregnancy symptoms as constipation.
Niomi Thomas, 18, of Molesey, Surrey, started experiencing back and stomach aches while working at a nursery on placement last July but shrugged it off as constipation or period pains.
But after popping a painkiller, she found the pain didn't go away, to the extent she could barely stand the next morning.