Perth woman Ashlee Wilson who didn’t know she was pregnant gives birth in living room

A truck driver was told to drink more water by her GP after suffering unexplained bloating before giving birth to a baby she didn’t know she was pregnant with.

Ashlee Wilson, 34, from Banksia Grove, in Perth’s north-east, was home alone last week when she rang triple zero complaining of severe stomach pains.

Little did she know, she was pregnant with her daughter Marley-Rae, who was born just six minutes after paramedics arrived.

‘I said to (the paramedic), ”No I’m not (pregnant)”, and she said, ”Yes you are”,’ Ms Wilson told Sunrise.

Ms Wilson could be heard wailing in agony in audio of the phone call she made to emergency services.

‘The pain is coming right now, ugh!’ she was heard crying out.

‘Oh my God! I’m just sitting on the toilet because it feels like something’s trying to come out but there’s nothing there and it hurts!’

There was no time to rush to the hospital once paramedics arrived and Ms Wilson ended up giving birth to little Marley-Rae in her living room.

‘I was in complete denial, I did not want to believe (the paramedic) at all,’ she said.

‘I was scared about what was happening to my body at the time and I was just in big denial.’

The 34-year-old had gone to her doctor complaining of a bloating issue but was bizarrely told just to drink more water and eat peanuts.

‘Visually it was really hard to see, a lot of my family have been going through photos and saying ”even there you don’t look pregnant”,’ she said.

Ms Wilson admitted that because she had no idea she was pregnant, she was ‘kind of in party mode’.

‘Of course there were things I was doing that I shouldn’t have been doing that now I look back and think, ”Oh my God I’m so sorry if anything happens to you because of that”,’ she added.

Both Ms Wilson and Marley-Rae are doing well one week on, with the mother saying the birth of her little girl is one of the best things that has ever happened to her.

‘Here I was thinking I wanted to be an interstate truck driver a week-and-a-half-ago, now I want to give her the world and take it over with her,’ she said. 

St John Ambulance paramedic Melissa Gardiner said she felt lucky she was called out to the house.

‘I feel like I was literally made for meeting Ashlee and Marley-Rae helping her into the world,’ she said.

‘Everything that I’ve done in my career has pretty much I think led me to Saturday morning.’