Party girl, 25, who liked to show off her flat tummy didn’t know she was pregnant until she was in LABOUR (and admits she was out boozing just four weeks before giving birth)

A mother has revealed how she was drinking and partying up until weeks before she gave birth – because she had no idea she was pregnant.

Rosie Yearling, 25, from Colchester, Essex, thought she was suffering from stress when she started experiencing ‘excruciating’ pains across her stomach.

The now mother-of-one to daughter Bella – who weighed 7lbs 8oz – said she had a flat tummy up until that point and had been having regular periods so had no indication that she was expecting. 

Rosie Yearling, 25, from Colchester, Essex, pictured with daughter Bella, thought she was suffering from stress when she started experiencing ‘excruciating’ pains across her stomach 

Rosie Yearling, 25, pictured at five months pregnant, was still drinking and partying – not knowing she was pregnant

Just four weeks before going into hospital, size 10 Rosie thought she was just hungover from two nights’ boozing when she started to feel nauseous after a friend’s hen do.

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She had taken a full-length selfie in a slinky black dress before going out and was feeling confident when she hit the town with 14 friends in Nottingham. 

She said: ‘I’d felt like I’d put a bit of weight on a few months before but I’d reduced my portions and started eating healthier, and the cut of this dress boosted my confidence again.’  

Rosie said her stomach had ‘gone hard and had started swelling’ when the pains started and by that point she was in labour – pictured

Less than a month before she gave birth, Rosie took a full-length selfie of herself in her new black dress on a night out in Nottingham

However, during the night out, Rosie said nausea swept over her and she only just managed to make it to a cubicle in time.

She said: ‘I must have been being sick for a long time, as some of the other girls came looking for me. I was freshening myself up when they found me.’

She had been drinking the night before and joked to her friends: ‘I’m not used to two heavy nights out in a row.’

Taking it easy for the rest of the night, Rosie then felt awful again the next day, but she put it down to drinking too much. 

However, over the next few weeks, Rosie struggled at work as a call centre supervisor.

She started suffering back ache and feeling sick at work, but her mother said it was probably down to the stress of working six days a week.  

Pictured with Bella and her boyfriend Connor, Rosie said when their daughter was born: ‘ As he sat holding her and they looked into each other’s eyes I realised I had his support and I knew we’d be fine’

Pictured on the hen do, Rosie said she was sick after drinking but just put it down to a hangover from the day before

One night, Rosie went to bed but was woken up in the middle of the night ‘with excruciating pain ripping through my stomach’ and she yelled out for her mother. 

‘Crippled over and crying, I wondered if this was down to stress too’, she said.

As her mother got ready to take her to the hospital, her dad took her to one side and said: ‘You look pregnant.’ 

Rosie said: ‘I couldn’t take in what he was saying.

‘How could I be pregnant? Me and my boyfriend Connor, 23, had always been careful, and I hadn’t had any symptoms.

‘My stomach had gone hard and had started swelling since the pain had started – but it wasn’t very big.’

Rosie said she was tired at work but believed it was because she was working six-day weeks

Rosie’s father said for her to text her boyfriend and she typed: ‘I’m going to AE. I’m in severe pain but just to let you know my dad thinks I’m pregnant.’ 

She said: ‘It was about 2am so I wasn’t expecting to hear from him for a while and spent the journey trying to figure out what else could be causing the pain besides a baby.

‘At hospital the staff agreed I might be expecting. I was beside myself. 

‘I didn’t even know if this pain meant I was suffering a miscarriage.’

They sent Rosie to the early stages pregnancy department for a scan, where she was told by a nurse: ‘You’re full-term,’ the nurse told her after struggling with the scan equipment.

‘You’re in labour – you’re going to have this baby now.’

As her contractions worsened, Rosie’s stomach grew bigger. 

The midwife told her that the baby must have been laying very far back during the pregnancy. 

She spent 26 hours in labour and kept yelling and crying to her mother: ‘I can’t do this – I don’t want this baby!’ 

Rosie, who had a 26-hour labour, admits being terrified – and says having a baby at 24 wasn’t part of her plan. 

She said: ‘I was also running through all the times I’d been out drinking over the last nine months with no idea of the life growing inside me.’   

She added: ‘When our daughter was born I was still in shock. As they handed me the tiny 7lbs 8oz I couldn’t make sense of the fact she was mine.

Bella, pictured, weighed 7lbs 8oz and Rosie says: ‘I couldn’t make sense of the fact she was mine’

‘But then they handed her to Connor and I experienced the weirdest feeling. 

‘As he sat holding her and they looked into each other’s eyes I realised I had his support and I knew we’d be fine. 

‘I was exhausted but there was no doubt in my mind we’d be okay and we’d just get on with it and do it together. And I knew he felt the same.’

Rosie was kept in for a few days as they ran various tests on the baby – who they called Bella.  

The baby was fine but Rosie said: ‘That didn’t stop me feeling a huge amount of guilt about the lifestyle I’d led while she’d been secretly growing inside me.

‘Bella is a year old now and Connor and I have really settled into our unexpected roles as parents. 

‘I’m still living at home while we look for our own place and mum and dad been so supportive, as have Connor’s family. 

‘We’re very lucky.’

Rosie admits: ‘This is definitely not the way I planned living my 20s but now Bella’s here I wouldn’t have it any other way.’

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Janet Fyle, of the Royal College of Midwives said although this situation is uncommon, it is not unheard of.

She told MailOnline: ‘It might happen for a variety of reasons. It’s different for any women.There are some women with good abdominal muscles and fat and the baby lies flat against the back so they don’t have a bump.

‘Some women won’t have the normal pregnancy symptoms – some feel the baby moving inside them, but some don’t.’

She added: ‘A lot of the symptoms of pregnancy are “everyday” symptoms. So they might not know that having wind is a sign of pregnancy. Especially if they’ve never had a baby.’