I'm Pregnant With Poo!

Don’t ask Sharon when she’s due...

Sharon McLear, 37, from Lanarkshire

Standing in the supermarket queue, my stomach was suddenly gripped by crippling cramps.

The searing pains were so bad, my knuckles turned white as I gripped the trolley.

‘Quick! I need to get home right away,’ I whispered urgently to my mum Mary, 58.

We rushed to the car with my son DJ, who was then just a few months old.

Back home, I headed straight for the toilet. And only when I went did the pain start to fade.

It wasn’t the first time I’d experienced agony like that.

Since having a Caesarean with DJ, I’d been getting frequent pains in my stomach.

And, rather than getting flatter after he was born, my tummy was getting rounder and rounder.

I went to my GP but was told not to worry about it. So I carried on with life as a new mum and just hoped it’d go away.

Only, every few days, the crippling pains would return.

Awkward questions

Sometimes, I was in too much pain to get out of bed. And my tummy grew and grew, until I began to look like I was nine months pregnant all over again.

‘When are you due?’ a stranger asked me in the street one day.

I blushed, explaining I had a stomach problem that made my tummy so big – but she looked at me like I was mad.

I wanted the ground to swallow me up, and made my way home as quickly as I could.