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From today's Bristol Evening Post-
IT WAS JUST ANOTHER NIGHT OUT - A FEW VODKAS, GOT DRUNK, GAVE BIRTH
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11:00 - 21 July 2004
It Started as a night out for a few drinks and ended with the birth of the child Kim Gratton didn't even know she was carrying. Kim, 23, from Horfield, thought she was suffering a hangover after a boozy Saturday night, but the suspected stomach cramps and nausea turned out to be labour pains.
She is now getting over the shock following the birth of her son, who she had no idea even existed, even though she was 38 weeks pregnant when she went into labour on Sunday morning after her night out.
The medical lab assistant had been taking the contraceptive pill and had thought the bit of extra weight she had put on was down to an increase in the amount of ice cream she was eating - something she now realises was pregnancy cravings.
Kim said doctors told her it is not uncommon for women to give birth having been unaware of the pregnancy.
She said: "My periods were not regular anyway so I didn't notice anything different."
Kim and her partner, 31-year-old postman Simon Bloom, said that now they are over the shock, they are delighted with baby Christopher even though they had not so much as a nappy in the house.
Babies were the last thing on the couple's mind when they headed off to a vodka bar in the centre of Bristol on Saturday evening before stumbling home at 1.30am.
At 4am, Kim woke with what she believed were the symptoms of a bad hangover. However she started to bleed so she woke Simon to call an ambulance and they were taken to casualty at Southmead Hospital.
It was there that doctors told Kim - who was meant to turn up for work at the very same hospital on Monday - she was about to give birth. A few hours later she did just that and Christopher James Bloom was born at 7lb 15oz.
He has been proclaimed fit and healthy by medics.
Simon said: "It was just mad. The doctor said to us that not only was Kim pregnant, but that she would be having her baby that day.
"She was 38 weeks pregnant and eight centimetres dilated - which is only two centimetres away from starting to give birth.
"From then on, everything just seemed to be out of control.
"A couple of hours later I was looking at my son and it was unbelievable. Where most people have months to get to grips with these things, we've only had a couple of days.
"We decided to call him Christopher after St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, because he has managed to get himself here with no help.
"If you'd asked either of us last week if we had wanted to have children now, both of us would have said 'no'. But just seeing Christopher's face makes me feel incredible and we wouldn't change it for the world."
Story here.
IT WAS JUST ANOTHER NIGHT OUT - A FEW VODKAS, GOT DRUNK, GAVE BIRTH
More News | Back to home page
11:00 - 21 July 2004
It Started as a night out for a few drinks and ended with the birth of the child Kim Gratton didn't even know she was carrying. Kim, 23, from Horfield, thought she was suffering a hangover after a boozy Saturday night, but the suspected stomach cramps and nausea turned out to be labour pains.
She is now getting over the shock following the birth of her son, who she had no idea even existed, even though she was 38 weeks pregnant when she went into labour on Sunday morning after her night out.
The medical lab assistant had been taking the contraceptive pill and had thought the bit of extra weight she had put on was down to an increase in the amount of ice cream she was eating - something she now realises was pregnancy cravings.
Kim said doctors told her it is not uncommon for women to give birth having been unaware of the pregnancy.
She said: "My periods were not regular anyway so I didn't notice anything different."
Kim and her partner, 31-year-old postman Simon Bloom, said that now they are over the shock, they are delighted with baby Christopher even though they had not so much as a nappy in the house.
Babies were the last thing on the couple's mind when they headed off to a vodka bar in the centre of Bristol on Saturday evening before stumbling home at 1.30am.
At 4am, Kim woke with what she believed were the symptoms of a bad hangover. However she started to bleed so she woke Simon to call an ambulance and they were taken to casualty at Southmead Hospital.
It was there that doctors told Kim - who was meant to turn up for work at the very same hospital on Monday - she was about to give birth. A few hours later she did just that and Christopher James Bloom was born at 7lb 15oz.
He has been proclaimed fit and healthy by medics.
Simon said: "It was just mad. The doctor said to us that not only was Kim pregnant, but that she would be having her baby that day.
"She was 38 weeks pregnant and eight centimetres dilated - which is only two centimetres away from starting to give birth.
"From then on, everything just seemed to be out of control.
"A couple of hours later I was looking at my son and it was unbelievable. Where most people have months to get to grips with these things, we've only had a couple of days.
"We decided to call him Christopher after St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, because he has managed to get himself here with no help.
"If you'd asked either of us last week if we had wanted to have children now, both of us would have said 'no'. But just seeing Christopher's face makes me feel incredible and we wouldn't change it for the world."
Story here.
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