When Shaun Jude Jaegers grows up, he’ll have a heck of a story to tell about his birth. Not only was he a “surprise” baby, but his mom at first thought he was just a kidney stone.Last week his mother, Stephanie Jaegers of Locust Grove, Georgia, was suffering significant stomach pain. She figured it was kidney stones, so she went to a local hospital.
While she was being evaluated, a technician asked her how far along she was in her pregnancy. Jaegers shot him an “evil look” and told him not only was she not pregnant but she was on her period.So imagine her surprise when she ended up in emergency surgery, with a doctor ordering up an ultrasound.
“I was pretty much in shock,” Jaegers told CNN. Her husband was dumbfounded by the turn of events as well. “I went from googling “kidney stone treatments” to a panic attack over the fact that not only were we pregnant, but the baby was coming within the hour,” Michael Jaegers wrote on Facebook. “Most parents have a good 9+ months to plan for such a blessing, we had 30 minutes’ notice.” Stephanie Jaegers was worried because she hadn’t had any prenatal care. But that wasn’t the only thing : the baby was in trouble.
“He was breech. He was sitting and his feet were up by his head,” she told CNN affiliate WGCL.
About an hour after all that, Shaun was born.It was a crazy, unbelievable couple of hours, but when Stephanie first held Shaun in her arms, everything was OK, she said.
“At that point all the fear went away, and you’re thinking this is how it was meant to be. This is right,”
Michael Jaegers then addressed the first question everyone asks when they hear his family’s story: How could they not know she was pregnant?
“We were asking the same question. We’ve been called stupid and dumb and ignorant, but until it happens to you, you can’t really grasp it,” he said. “She knows the symptoms; she knows the signs. There were zero. It was a miracle.”
