Nando’s employee goes to work feeling dizzy – returns dwelling with shock child

A teenager who rocked up for her shift at Nando’s feeling dizzy got the shock of her life when the day ended with her giving birth despite having no clue she was even pregnant.

Destiny Stephens-Coull, now 19, had not long started her shift at the popular chain when she started bleeding heavily and within no time was being rushed to the hospital.

When the bleeding didn’t stop and she felt worse she alerted her manager and a friend rushed her to A&E. It was there that nurses announced the life-changing news that she was about to become a mother in what Destiny described as “the most traumatic thing ever”.

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Destiny, from Basildon in Essex said. “I had to wait for around an hour to be seen at A&E and had to ask for a sanitary pad as I was bleeding so heavily it was dripping on the floor.” Then she collapsed.

“While the lady on reception went to get me a pad I collapsed, which led to me being seen immediately,” she told What’s The Jam. They did liver and kidney scans and when they realised there wasn’t anything wrong. They then scanned my stomach and discovered I was pregnant.”

The teenager was speechless after being told she was having a baby, having experienced no symptoms and having a completely flat stomach.

“I do remember being three days late with my period, but I took a pregnancy test and it came back negative. And my periods were also normal throughout my pregnancy, so I didn’t suspect anything.

“The first thought that came to my head when the nurse told me I was pregnant was, ‘no I’m not.’ I wanted to get up and leave because I didn’t believe them. I was having a blood transfusion at the time and was trying to pull out the tubes.”

She said nurses literally had to “pin [her] down to the bed” and that she “just went mental” because of how unprepared she was to hear that news. Four hours after she’d arrived at the hospital, she was taken for an emergency C-section and complications followed with her baby boy being taken to a different hospital for urgent care.

Baby Kinsley was diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a condition caused by a build-up of fluid on the brain. Doctors told the new mum her son may never be able to walk or talk at the time – but the now two-year-old tot is a totally healthy little boy.

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