Surprise

From Fox News:

An East Texas college student finally learned why she'd gained weight and was having abdominal pain — she was about to give birth.

Annie Cohen was three days shy of 19 on the morning of June 16 when, after a night of tossing and turning, she walked out into her yard to try to catch some winks in her neighbor's swing seat.

"I had been having pains for about a week," the Marshall, Texas, woman told The News-Journal of neighboring Longview. "I thought maybe it was the bed, so I went outside to lay in the swing."

She didn't even make it that far. Instead, Cohen, already the mother of a 3-year-old, figured out she was in labor and grabbed the pole of her own swing set.

"It was one big push for the baby and a little one for the placenta," Annie Cohen told the newspaper.

"It was like a natural instinct," marveled her mother, Julie Cohen. "She knew to push to turn the baby's shoulder and to get the baby out."

After the delivery, Annie Cohen ran inside, yelling at her mother to call 911.

"I said 'Why?'" recounted Julie Cohen. "She said, 'There's a baby in the yard.' I said, 'Whose is it?' She said, 'It's mine.'"

Instead of waiting for the ambulance, however, the two women and the newborn baby boy drove to the hospital.

"She told me to slow down because the baby's not in a car seat," said Julie Cohen.
Carson Myles Cohen weighed in at a healthy 8 pounds. Both he and his mother were back home within two days.

Despite the signs, both mother and daughter, who is studying at Texas State Technical College (search), said neither guessed Annie Cohen was pregnant.

"It's a big surprise," said Julie Cohen. "I thought she was just really liking her pizza."