Twenty-one-year-old Teagan Brill was getting ready to join a class remotely when she began feeling a stomach pain that was too much to handle. After asking if she could attend class with her camera off, Teagan ended up calling 911.
While on the phone with dispatch, Teagan realized something unfathomable: She was about to give birth to a baby. Having only found out she was pregnant the week before, Teagan was completely unprepared.
Teagan had taken a positive pregnancy test the week before. She and her boyfriend are long distance, and she figured at most she was three months pregnant. In fact, the pair hadn't even told anyone they were expecting yet because they wanted to figure out what they wanted to do.
Fast-forward a week, and Teagan found herself crouched over the toilet bowl as the 911 operator tried to help her figure out what was going on. After looking down, Teagan said, "I think I’m giving birth." She pulled her baby out, and the two were taken to the hospital.
Teagan had what experts call a cryptic pregnancy, which is when a woman doesn't realize she's pregnant. Such pregnancies are very rare, but they obviously exist.
Teagan has since explained on TikTok that she had little to no signs of pregnancy, and she even continued to get her period each month.
Nurses at the hospital told Teagan it's likely the fact that she's 6 feet tall meant the baby grew behind her rib cage, which is why her abdomen didn't grow at the more typical rate. Cryptic pregnancies don't always end positively, so Teagan is pretty lucky.
Luckily, Teagan's baby is healthy. As she says in her videos, because she didn't know she was pregnant, she had continued on with many of her normal activities, including drinking.
Teagan has shared that she told her parents the news to their shock, but she's been happy to be a mom. As she shared, she sat in the hospital room thinking, "You’re my miracle. There’s no way you should be healthy, let alone this healthy and this cute, like you are a miracle."
