A
44-year-old Michigan woman went to her local hospital for abdomen
pains. Fifteen hours later, Linda Ackley was a first time mom.
Turns
out the suspected “hernia” was a baby girl ready to make her big debut.
According to mylive. Ackley was completely clueless about her pregnancy
until she and her husband, Mike, went to the hospital.
The
couple had long believed they could not get pregnant. Linda hadn’t
experienced significant weight gain and her menstrual periods had
“always been irregular” according to News.
When
Linda arrived at the hospital complaining of bloating of her abdomen,
doctors thought it may be a hernia and ordered a scan. It was then that
medical staff discovered a full-term baby in the womb.
An
emergency C-section was ordered and Kimberley Kay Ackley was born. “I
was happy and shocked at the same time, and scared,” Mike Ackley told
MLive. He said he wished somebody had taken a picture of his face when
he heard that Linda was going to have a baby.
Linda
said it was a good thing he was sitting down. “Some people have nine
months to prepare. I had 15 hours,” the new father said. He and Linda,
who met in high school, have been married for 24 years.
In
2011, Linda contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a serious type
of bacterial infection. Mike Ackley told MLive that doctors didn’t think
his wife would live. While the Ackley’s story is spectacular, it isn’t
terribly uncommon.
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