A YOUNG Bridport woman went to the bathroom suffering from ‘period pains’ - and delivered her baby boy.

Nikki Kelly, 24, who has been with her fiancée Aaron Swallow, 27, for two years, said she had no idea she was pregnant, 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 expecting, 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 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 twice a week, going bowling.”

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

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

“I called Aaron loads 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?’ “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’ hands and feet and wrapped him up in my dressing gown.”

Born on January 5, weighing 6lb, doctors and nurses at Dorset County Hospital checked over baby James and estimated 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’ 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 equip- ment.

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 priority because Miss Kelly and Mr Swallow live separately at the moment.

“I live in Bridport with my parents and he lives with his parents in Beaminster, but we see each other every day and night and stay over at each other’s houses,” she said.

“We have put in an application to rent privately and are waiting to hear, because we have been told we have got at least a two-year wait on the list for a council house,” Miss Kelly added.