Åsa suddenly suffered from acute stomach pains – in the next second she became a mother to her daughter Lou in the hall, something P4 Norrbotten was the first to report on.
But she had no idea she was pregnant because all the pregnancy tests had shown negative.
– I thought it was the intestines that would come, but then it was a baby, says Åsa from Luleå.
Åsa has PCOS, an imbalance of hormones in the ovaries, which, among other things, means irregular or absent periods and makes it difficult to get pregnant. In TV4’s Efter fem, she says that she and her partner have been trying to have children for a long time.
– All the tests I have done have been negative. When I have PCOS, it gets a bit like this, says Åsa.
– Throughout my upbringing I have been “plus size” so people ask if I am with children, but then I say ‘no, I’m just a little fat’. Even now when I was pregnant they asked, but all the tests showed that I wasn’t, says Åsa.
“Felt stomach pain”
Despite the many attempts to get pregnant that didn’t seem to show results, Åsa suddenly became the mother of daughter Lou.
– It all started on Tuesday. I had worked all day and was at swimming school with the bonus child. I came home and felt that I had stomach pains, she continues.
“Is it alive?”
It ends with the couple having to call an ambulance. When Åsa is asked by the staff to lie down on the bunk, she feels that she cannot move forward. At first she suspected it was the intestines that would come out.
– I just say that ‘I can’t go. I can’t go. It’s coming, it’s coming’. So I stay in the middle of the hall, Åsa continues.
But suddenly her daughter is born there.
– My first reaction was: Is it alive? But then I hear her. And then I realize that she has been in my stomach the whole period.
– It feels so wonderful, continues Åsa.
Now in retrospect, she understands her own mood swings and hormones she’s felt lately, she says, laughing.