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Australian woman gives birth hours after learning she's pregnant

Kim Walsh and baby Shelby (Facebook)

On August 11, Kim Walsh arrived at her doctor’s with complaints of abdominal pain.

Less than three hours later, she was holding her newborn daughter, Shelby, in her arms.

Walsh had been in labour — without even knowing she was pregnant.

The 38-year-old woman from Sydney, Australia, suffers from polycystic ovarian syndrome, which often results in infertility. She and her husband of 15 years assumed they’d never have children. Doctors had even told them they’d never conceive naturally.

"My husband was parked outside the surgery. I climbed into the car. He asked, ‘How did you go?’ I told him, ‘You’re going to be a father…today,’" Walsh recalled.

When Walsh arrived at the hospital, her baby was in “acute foetal distress,” with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.

"Aside from myself and my junior staff, the entire midwifery team were on board," Dr. Charles McCusker, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Fairfield Hospital in Sydney, told the Sydney Morning Herald.

"I brought in a trusted senior colleague, Dr Harry Ngo. Anesthetic staff were able to provide a reasonable anesthesia, despite obvious difficulties. And then of course there were the paediatrics staff. It really was a case of Team Fairfield pulling together. Shelby arrived into this world surrounded by relief, joy and incredible happiness."

Upon hearing the incredible news, friends and strangers stepped up to provide the new parents with “everything we needed — and more,” Walsh said, admitting they “walked in the door without so much as a nappy.”

Shelby and her new parents are doing well.

"What an incredible gift for two of the most wonderful, genuine, people you could ever wish to meet," Dr. McCusker said. ”Even to a gnarled old timer like me, she is a cute baby.”