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You would think that most women would notice they were pregnant - certainly after the first few months, what with the kicking, heartburn and expanding waistline.

Not so Belinda Waite, who saw her GP complaining of feeling unwell.

What we really can't understand though, is how a series of medical professionals could fail to notice she was expecting.

Instead, doctors diagnosed her with everything from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to gout and told her to carry on with life as normal.

They only realised she was pregnant when she went to hospital in agony. At that point, Belinda was about to give birth to a healthy full-term baby girl, weighing 8lb 14oz.

Ms Waite, a hairdresser from Bampton, Devon, said she and her partner Wayne Boyles, 28, never thought she could be pregnant.

"I went on roller coasters at Alton Towers, on water slides in Spain,' said the 21-year-old. I probably ate all the wrong foods – and was knocked down by a car. Luckily, I do not smoke and I stopped drinking alcohol as it made me feel sick.

"I did feel like something was moving inside me as the months went on. But I never considered I was pregnant and it doesn't seem to have crossed the doctors' minds," she added.

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