An influencer who had no idea she was pregnant has given birth 15 hours after being told she was eight months along.
Yess Figueroa shared the baffling story with her tens of thousands of TikTok followers.
The influencer said she didn’t realise she was expecting because she didn’t have a noticeable belly and has always had irregular periods.
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“I began feeling intense cramps, which isn’t unusual for me since I’ve always been irregular,” she said.
“When my period is about to come, I suffer a lot from cramps.
“The difference this time was that I had been experiencing cramps for two days and my period hadn’t arrived.
“I started to worry.
“By the third day, the pain was intense.
“It was early morning, around 4am., when I got up and told my parents, ‘I can’t take it anymore’.”
Yess’ parents rushed their daughter to A&E, where medics did some tests.
When she told them where her pain was, one of the doctors decided to give her an ultrasound scan.
The Mexican influencer from Hermosillo, Mexico said: “My belly wasn’t big or anything, so when the doctor placed the device on me, she went silent and just stared.
“She said, ‘Wait here, I’m going to get another doctor’.
“Sure enough, two doctors came, and they did the same thing, just staring at the screen.
“Then they said, ‘Let’s get another doctor to be sure.’
“Well, I’m not lying when I say there were about eight doctors crowded in that small emergency room, some here, some there, all staring at the screen in complete silence.”
Yess couldn’t see what was on the screen herself, as reported on Need To Know.
Worried, she asked what was going on.
That was when a medic told her: “You’re pregnant.
“And you’re very pregnant, your baby is ready to come.”
The influencer was stunned.
She said: “It’s one thing for them to say, ‘You’re pregnant’; you process it, you have nine months to get used to it.
“But for them to say, ‘You’re pregnant and your baby is ready to come’ – it was a huge shock.”
Yess said she calmed down when she heard her baby’s heart beating for the first time.
She said: “I was scared, honestly but hearing those strong heartbeats was what kept me calm.
Yess was taken by ambulance to a local maternity unit, where she gave birth to her beloved daughter Renata.
The influencer had what is called a cryptic, or stealth, pregnancy.
It happens when the person doesn’t have pregnancy symptoms or mistakes the symptoms for something else.
Only about one in 2,500 pregnancies go unnoticed until delivery.
Yess later added: “I can definitely tell you that sharing this spontaneous story has been helpful for many women who are judged and criticised for supposedly wanting to hide their pregnancy, when cryptic pregnancy is real and no one talks about it.”
