Young Louisiana military couple shocked by surprise baby girl after going to hospital for 'kidney stones'

A young military couple in Louisiana who didn't know they were expecting a baby spoke of their shock this week after the birth of their healthy little girl.

Grace Mawn, 19, went to the hospital with her husband Bryson, 20, after suffering severe abdominal pains the couple though were kidney stones.

But when her waters broke in front of doctors the couple, who live in Shreveport, soon realized Grace was in labor.

New mom Grace said she was on birth control and hadn't missed any periods in the months prior to the delivery. She also said she had not experienced any typical pregnancy symptoms.

She even passed a pregnancy test back in January when she went on the pill.

Grace, who plans to get her nursing degree and work in the NICU, told KSLA: 'I never felt her move during the pregnancy.'

She added: 'I never had cravings, I never had morning sickness. Looking back now I did put on a little bit of weight, but it wasn't noticeable weight, so I didn't ever think about it.

'I had my normal cycle some months were a little lighter, but I thought it was the pill that I was on so I never thought anything about it.' 

Grace and Bryson, who is in the Air Force, had just left dinner with friends when they decided to go to the emergency room for her stomach pains.

Grace, a catering manager at Chick-Fil-A, said: 'I knew when I felt something down there, I knew it wasn't a kidney stone.

'Whenever I look at her I’m just like how the heck did that happen, but I’m super grateful and I love her to death, I’m happy.'

Bryson, who is stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base, added: 'I was like okay, you probably have kidney stones you’re going to be fine.

'They said "It’s a girl," and she starts crying and the moment I heard that cry I was like "How is she alive? What is going on?"

'So many questions, so many scenarios going through my head of what’s going to happen.

'We're both really young adults, we were children last week and we were put into parenthood in a night.' 

The couple have now set up a GoFundMe page to help with the unexpected costs of little Micaela Grace, who was born two weeks ago and is at the NICU at LSUS-Health.   

Bryson wrote: 'The night before this scary yet beautiful event my wife, Grace, was experiencing extreme abdominal pain that we confused as a possible kidney stone passing. While waiting for hours in the ER we never would have believed what we were about to go through.

'My little girl snuck her way into this world without either of us knowing at all.

'We didn't have months to save up money and prepare for a baby.'

The family of three are being inundated with gifts and donations to help raise their newborn, with the page already topping more than $3,000.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

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