A Massachusetts woman was completely unaware that she was pregnant until she gave birth while sitting on the toilet. Even then, she wasn’t 100% sure.

“I look in the toilet and I still didn’t know what it was,” 38-year-old Peabody resident Melissa Surgecoff said.

Melissa and her partner of seven years — fiancé Donnie Campbell, 37 — have always wanted kids. But they planned to wait until after their wedding, which was postponed due to Covid-19.

But on the morning of March 8, Melissa started experiencing severe cramping. Because she has a history of irregular periods, Melissa originally thought the symptoms were due to her 5 month late period.

But when the pain only got worse, she suspected something else was wrong.  

“I’m sitting on the toilet, screaming, and I’m telling myself this is way beyond a menstrual cycle,” she said. “This has to be a kidney stone.”

She called for an ambulance, but before EMTs could arrive, Melissa felt something come out of her.

Melissa said she originally “thought it was an organ” when she looked in the toilet.

After a few moments, the couple realized “there’s a baby in the toilet.”

The EMTs arrived and took the parents and their surprise child off to the hospital, where doctors confirmed that it was a healthy baby boy. The couple has since named him Liam. 

“This is our first and probably last child,” Campbell said.