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A 57-year-old woman who feared she had ovarian cancer has been told she is expecting her first baby instead.

Susan Tollefsen will become one of Britain’s oldest mothers when she gives birth by caesarean section next week.

The special needs teacher from Romford, east London, was sent to hospital for emergency tests after an examination by her GP revealed a "hard abdominal mass".  She thought it was OVCA

Ms Tollefsen feared the worst, but was instead congratulated by the sonographer at Nuffield Hospital, Essex, who told her she was almost 30 weeks pregnant.

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272338 tn?1252280404
I have to say that I too would have been thrilled to find out that there was a baby in there instead of what it really was.
  Love the toilet seat story. I raised Brandon by myself and when he got a little older (old enough to know the difference) I used to tell him that I caught him off a toilet seat. By then he was old enough to tell me that I was "gross"
It is hard to imagine someone carrying a baby full term and not knowing it. I guess that means that they just don't get out much? But how wonderful that the baby was just fine.
         Chris
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41502 tn?1223517053
Congrats to the British mom. The farmers daughter, too funny. I always heard not to throw a toothpick in the toilet "things pole vault". Guess no one told her, Lol.
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167426 tn?1254086235
I remember in the ER one night,  a farm family brought their daughter in with "stomach cramps", she delivered a full term 8 pounder. The actual statement to us was " she must have "caught it" from a toilet  seat.  OMG
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282804 tn?1236833591
Even at my age I would have been thrilled if they had pulled out a healthy 7 lb baby instead of 10 lbs of tumor.  That is a great story Marty.  I don't know how you can go that long without knowing you are pregnant, but I guess if it was her first one.  I can't even imagine what her life will be like now.  Oh boy!!!
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That has to be the best ending to a fearful diagnosis that I've ever heard. Love, Judie :)
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408448 tn?1286883821
I knew a woman that was in surgery with her gyn to remove a massive fibroid. The fibroid was actually a full term healthy baby boy. He is my age now and his mom was a resident at my nursing home. This was a story her family loved to tell. Marie
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