Doctor Reacts: Cryptic pregnancy ends with TOILET BIRTH on Halloween!?

Naming it Jacqueline was a god-tier dad joke, which to me shows that the husband really did accept his unexpected role.

I think the dad called the baby "this tiny mush of what was almost like a little person" because it best represents his perspective at the time, which was that he didn't immediately register that it was an actual baby. It was actually a great way to express his shock and wonder.

I have a friend who went through a Cryptic pregnancy, the Doctor felt a lump and thought it was a swollen spleen (negative pregnancy tests), months of testing, aneamia etc. she went in to get a scan to check on the 'tumor' for the first time and it was very baby shaped. She had him a week later and hes a healthy 15 year old now. The Doctor who missed it saw her in the midwifery ward and said 'Well don't I feel silly'.. Same Doctor missed my mums lung cancer. Safe to say we switched Doctors pretty quickly.

EDIT: Forgot to clarify the Doctors words when feeling for the lump were: 'Well, it's definitely not your womb.'

She thought she had leukemia.

Thank you, MDJ, for the rant about anesthesia! As a woman, I get so tired of our pain being dismissed!

The fact that you made Dr. Mike the baby made me giggle. Wittle Dr. Mike, all bundled up in a blanket.

I got told I was given a local anesthetic when I was getting stitched up after my first... and I don't believe them AT ALL. I was in an INSANE amount of pain, I felt every single stitch, writing in pain and they just got annoyed with me and told me to "sit still". Doctors who refuse to give anesthetic are horrible people in my book :')

Nothing like I didn’t know I was pregnant for spooky season cuz that’s rlly the spookiest thing of all 💀

I just want to say these videos helped me realize I was in labor at 24 weeks. A lot of people question how these women don’t know they’re in labor,but when you’re not actively looking for labor signs it’s easy to write off contractions as something else. I walked into the hospital fully dilated and still not positive I was about to give birth. My tiny micro premie turned 6 months yesterday ❤

I work at a vets office as a receptionist and I use your saying of "you do the best with the information you have" a lot at my work while comforting clients

When my mother gave birth to both my brother and I, she flatlined and they brought her back. Twice. She died twice and my dad had to watch. He described it as the most terrifying thing he’d ever gone through. So when that dad said the same thing, it hit me pretty hard.

How a doctor can say to a woman who is clearly going to be vulnerable to a huge amount of birth trauma because of how this unfolded that they couldn't give her anaesthetic for stitches is beyond me. I mean it's never right, but I feel like it takes a special kind of horrible to look at someone who has just been through that and say that. And to the Dad who just thought his wife gave birth to a stillborn baby on the toilet, only to find out the baby was alive, then watch his wife nearly die, still worrying about prem and sick the baby might be, to find out the baby was term and healthy, to then hear his wife "has to" have stitches with no anaesthetic is also just cruel (mostly for the woman, but this poor guy is also going through it!). I know I keep saying this, but I just can't imagine them saying to a guy, we're going to stitch up your penis with no anaesthetic because there's no time to wait.

My doc didn't use a local for sewing me up in 1990 and wouldn't get someone else, he just started in. 10 years later he almost lost a mom and baby, and lost his license.
After childhood abuse and being young I didn't feel like I could advocate for myself beyond speaking up initially.

I only found out I was pregnant because of TikTok.
I have really infrequent periods (still think it could be PCOS but no diagnosis). Had one in late May. Got pregnant in June (didn’t know). Took a test in mid July which was negative. Saw a TikTok in September saying we should take one every month or something. I jokingly took this test so confident I couldn’t be pregnant. I took 3 more because I was in denial when it was positive.
Ultrasound showed I was already 13 weeks. I had no symptoms or anything. Now super happy and feel ready for this baby.
For many medical reasons we didn’t think I’d ever get pregnant but I did and it was amazing!

Who always says it with MDJ: "Much better than that other time of the month!"
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My real scenario post birth…

Me during stitches: Ow, that hurts!
Doctor: Weird. Can you feel this? (Keeps stitching)
Me: Ow, yes!
Doctor: Huh. (Keeps stitching)

I was like "get the baby! pick up the baby!!!" but then when he was shocked that it started crying I was like "oooohhhhh, they both thought the baby was dead or maybe not fully developed and they might have honestly been scared to touch it." Thankfully that baby started crying to alert them that they needed to get it out of the toilet! I couldn't imagine the shock for both of them!

Literally the thing I take with me in everyday life and share with others because of you. You did what you could with the information that you had at the time.

I was a sort-of Halloween baby. I was born in September. But, I was adopted. And, the day the adoption was finalized and my parents brought me home was Halloween. My dad always joked that he was never sure if they got a trick or a treat that day. 😆

My SIL's birthday is the day before Halloween. My husband always talks about how lucky she was as a kid. "She got cake and ice cream one day, and candy the next!"

When getting stitches after giving birth at some point I flinched (although it didn't hurt much since I had had an epidural) and the doctor was immediately "Oh did that hurt?? Let me get you some lidocaine!" It didn't feel any different with the lidocaine tbh but there was 0 hesitation to get a local anesthetic.

My homebirth midwife used local anesthetic on my tear and I didn’t feel anything. I feel so bad for women who are mistreated by providers :(