by Woman, 21, Don’t Realise She Was Pregnant Gives Birth While On The Toilet
A typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks from the first day of your last menstrual period (LMP) to the birth of the baby. It is divided into three stages, called ᴛʀɪᴍᴇsᴛᴇʀs: first trimester, second trimester, and third trimester. The fetus undergoes many changes throughout maturation. All mothers are aware of strange signs in their body and know that they are pregnant at any time during pregnancy. But for the woman below, she didn’t know she was pregnant before 1 week she gave birth in the toilet.
A woman has posted a number of TikTok videos about her cryptic pregnancy after giving birth on the toilet. For the majority of women, there are many telltale signs to being pregnant like a growing sᴛᴏᴍᴀᴄʜ, ᴍᴏʀɴɪɴɢ sɪᴄᴋɴᴇss, ʀᴀɢɪɴɢ ʜᴏʀᴍᴏɴᴇs ᴀɴᴅ sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇ ᴄʀᴀᴠɪɴɢs in the middle of the night.
But those sʏᴍᴘᴛᴏᴍs did not come for 21-year-old university student Teagan Brill, who reportedly had no idea she was pregnant until she delivered her son herself on February 16, 2021. Ms Brill said that she went into ʟᴀʙᴏᴜʀ – without any idea she was nine months pregnant – while on the toilet.
Ms Brill claimed a week before her son Owen’s birth, she had text messaged her then-boyfriend, now-husband, Mitchell Brill, saying that she was “fat or pregnant”.
On the day that Ms Brill gave birth, she had sᴛᴏᴍᴀᴄʜ ᴄʀᴀᴍᴘs. Sʜᴇ ᴀssᴜᴍᴇᴅ that she was having a ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇ and called 911 (emergency services) to explain her sɪᴛᴜᴀᴛɪᴏɴ. As she was speaking to the ᴀᴛᴛᴇɴᴅᴀɴᴛ on the phone, her sᴛᴏᴍᴀᴄʜ pain was insurmountable. The operator said to her: “Breathe, talk through it, talk to me”. Then Ms Brill looked down at the toilet bowl and said to the operator: “I think I am giving birth.”
In that moment, Ms Brill took it upon herself to pull the baby out. When the baby felt the toilet water, the operator and Ms Brill heard the newborn cry for the first time. His name is Owen Louis Brill. When Ms Brill graduated in May 2021, she and Mr Brill got married with Owen in tow. Now, one year later, the three of them live in Grand Rapids, Michigan. When Owen had his first birthday on February 16.
A sᴛᴜᴅʏ from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine shows 1 in 475 women discover that they are pregnant at more than 20 weeks and 1 in 2,500 just prior to their baby’s birth.
In Ms Brill’s case, she did not have any sʏᴍᴘᴛᴏᴍs ᴀssᴏᴄɪᴀᴛᴇᴅ with pregnancy, had been on contraception and her menstrual cycle had not changed in any way. The nurses at the hospital informed Ms Brill that being six-foot tall meant that her son Fᴏʀᴍᴇᴅ ᴜᴘ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ ʜᴇʀ ʀɪʙs, which had stopped her from looking pregnant and growing a sᴛᴏᴍᴀᴄʜ. She told her mother that she was now a grandmother. At first, Ms Brill’s mother was ᴀɴxɪᴏᴜs ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴀɴɪᴄᴋᴇᴅ and wanted to ensure that Ms Brill was in good health.
