A MUM has revealed how she was HUNGOVER while in labour - after she didn’t realise she was pregnant and had been out binge drinking just hours before her baby arrived.

Abigail Avery, 24, from Wolverhampton, West Midlands, is now a proud mum to four-month-old Isabella who, despite her unexpected arrival, is happy and healthy.

8 Abigail had no idea that she was pregnant with Isabella and had been hungover when she went into labour Credit: PA Real Life

Isabella was born weighing a small 4lb 8oz shortly before 6am on January 10 this year – just hours after her mum, who works as a barmaid, got home from a night out.

Abigail, who was on the contraceptive pill and still having periods when pregnant , admitted: “I was really shocked.

“I definitely wouldn’t have drunk if I’d known I was pregnant. I felt really guilty.

8 Isabella was born weighing a tiny 4lb 8oz in January this year Credit: PA Real Life

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8 Despite her unexpected arrival, Isabella is a happy and healthy little girl Credit: PA Real Life

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Abigail, who does not advocate knowingly drinking during pregnancy, was unaware of her condition in January and went out for a night out on the tiles with pals.

The next morning, she began eating some pizza when she began to experience terrible stomach pains.

At first, she thought she had a urine infection and decided to rest until her boyfriend of four years, Jamie Pillinger, 37, an office worker, arrived home.

She said: “As soon as he got home, I told him something wasn’t right.”

Abigail continued to feel worse and at 10.30pm on January 9, Jamie drove Abigail to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.

But, minutes from the hospital, Abigail got out the car in so much agony that she could barely walk.

She said that the pain was so bad that she thought her “organs were exploding” - and even feared she may die.

8 Abigail was on a night out just hours before her daughter Isabella arrived Credit: PA Real Life

Although her pain was coming in waves, Abigail didn’t think for a second that it could be down to labour.

She said: “The thought never even crossed my mind.

“I didn’t watch One Born Every Minute, I didn’t know anything about babies.

“I was only 23 at the time – babies were the furthest thing from my mind.”

Soon after, a nurse broke the shocking news that Abigail was in labour.

Doctors initially suspected she was 24 weeks’ gone – but it then emerged she was further along.

Throughout the previous eight months, shocked mum-to-be Abigail had periods while on the contraceptive pill - although she had experienced some pregnancy symptoms.

She’d been to her doctor complaining of shooting pains in her stomach and constantly needing to get up in the night for a wee - but had been told it was a bladder infection.

Abigail had also noticed some weight gain, but put it down to the rich food she’d eaten and Baileys she’d enjoyed over Christmas.

What is Foetal Alcohol Syndrome? Drinking alcohol whilst pregnant can possibly lead to Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. The FASD Trust says the condition varies from child to child. It is a series of “preventable birth defects caused entirely by a woman drinking alcohol at any time during her pregnancy”. The trust warns it can cause: heart defects

liver problems

ADHD

vision impairment

sleep problems

a poor immune system

behavioural problems

speech and language delays And the NHS adds other conditions to the list: cerebral palsy – a condition affecting parts of the brain responsible for controlling muscles

learning disorders

epilepsy

8 Isabella was small and had pooed herself in labour so needed antibiotics and wasn’t breathing unaided at first. Pictured in intensive care Credit: PA Real Life

8 Abigail says that she would have never drunk during pregnancy had she known she was pregnant with Isabella Credit: PA Real Life

8 Abigail had been hungover and eating pizza when she started experiencing labour pains Credit: PA Real Life

In hospital, Abigail said, the nurses told her that her case was interesting.

She laughed: “I said, ‘well I’m glad it’s interesting for you’.

“There were around 15 doctors and nurses there, probably because I was hungover in labour, and they were worried about me.”

Early the next morning, doctors broke Abigail’s waters.

She was set to go for an emergency Caesarean because mum and baby were stressed, but suddenly, after just three pushes, her baby arrived.

Abigail got a brief cuddle before the baby, a little girl, who she named Isabella, was taken to the neonatal intensive care.

8 Baby Isabella, pictured with Abigail’s mum Carol - who had been in Spain when her daughter phoned to tell her the baby news Credit: PA Real Life

The tiny tot had pooed herself in labour so needed antibiotics and wasn’t breathing unaided at first.

But a few hours later new parents Jamie and Abigail were able to meet their baby properly.

Abigail said: “She was beautiful, of course, all mums think that.”

A few hours later she called her own mum, Carol Avery, in Spain, to tell her she was a gran.

She recalled: “I said, ‘Mum, I’m at hospital and doctors have worked out why I’ve had tummy aches…’ She was shocked – everyone was.

“But everyone pulled together and bought us baby things – everyone has been wonderful."

She continued: “I’m a bit sad I didn’t get a scan or baby shower, but I wouldn’t change Isabella for the world.”

Abigail was allocated a specialist midwife who deals with mums who’ve drunk during pregnancy.

She continued: “I understood that. Of course, I didn’t mean to.

“If I’d known I was pregnant, I wouldn’t have touched a drop. I can’t believe what I thought was a hangover was Isabella.”

Earlier this year, we asked two mums who both drank alcohol while pregnant whether they thought it OK to booze when you’re expecting and it was also revealed that four in ten Brit mums drink whilst pregnant.