An obese woman who weighed more than 180kg (400lbs) said she did not know she was pregnant until two days before giving birth this week to a healthy baby boy.
April Branum, 39, of Garden Grove, just south of Los Angeles, went to a local emergency room on February 26 with stomach pain only to discover she was pregnant with a full-term foetus.
Doctors discovered the baby as they took X-rays of Branum's abdominal area and referred her to UCI Medical Centre in the nearby city of Orange, California, for prenatal testing, said Susan Mancia, a spokeswoman for the centre.
No defects were detected and two days later on February 28, Branum gave birth by caesarean section to a healthy, 3.4kg (7.5lbs) boy named Walter Scott Edwards III.
"I'm tired but happy. The happy cancels out the tired part," Branum told Reuters, adding that she had struggled with unsuccessful gastric bypass surgery performed seven years ago when she weighed about 225kg (500lbs).
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