A YOUNG mum has spoken of her shock at giving birth in a bathroom after what she thought were period pains.

Miss Nikki Kelly, 24, who has been with her fiancée Aaron Swallow, 27, for two years, said that throughout her pregnancy she had no morning sickness or cravings and didn’t show a bump.

The couple even went on holiday to Greece together while Miss Kelly was unknowingly pregnant, and she continued to take the contraceptive pill and get periods.

The couple visited Scotland, where the Kelly family are originally from, to celebrate the New Year, but had to return to Dorset early because Miss Kelly was ‘in agony for about a week’ before the birth.

Miss Kelly, from Bridport, said: “I thought ‘Oh well, obviously it’s just that time of the month’ because I didn’t know anything of it – I was still on the pill, I was going to the gym two times a week, going bowling.”

On the day baby James was born, Mr Swallow left to work at Weller Scaffolding in Bridport, and Miss Kelly was home alone when the pain started getting much worse.

She said: “I was getting up to have a pee every two hours, then every hour, until I couldn’t get up off the bathroom floor.

She said: “I called Aaron 76 times in half-an-hour. I couldn’t move, I was in that much pain, and felt the need to push - three pushes later out comes my son. Aaron phoned me to say he was on his way and he asked me, ‘Who’s that? Who’s crying?’ and I said, ‘It’s your son’.”

Miss Kelly added: “I saw on television what they do when a baby is born, so I checked James’s hands and feet and wrapped him up in my dressing gown.”

Baby James was born on January 5 weighing 6lb doctors and nurses at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchesterchecked over baby James and estimated that Miss Kelly was between 32 and 37 weeks pregnant when her son was born.

She said: “I couldn’t believe it. I was chilled out but my other half was shocked, and he couldn’t understand why I wasn’t freaking out. James is perfect in every way and is our little miracle – and I don’t have a single stretch mark, so I can’t complain.”

“The doctors said because I’d kept fit and healthy, that’s why I didn’t have a bump, because he was sat closer to my spine.”

After James’s birth, the pair borrowed a car seat from Miss Kelly’s sister and were given nappies, a cot and a steriliser from relatives, but the new parents had to make a rushed visit to a nearby baby store to buy a whole host of equipment.

Life is still not back to normal for the young family though, as the young mum says she is still waiting on about £2,000 statutory maternity pay from the government where she has had to have time off from her job as a cleaner.

To add to difficulties, the pair are also trying to secure a council house but have been told they are not a priority buyers because they live separately at the moment.