A mum gave birth on the toilet after mistaking her baby’s head for a poo. Marie Delanote, 35, was stunned when little Eloise ‘popped out’ 17 weeks early after relieving herself at her home in Basildon, Essex. The mum-of-four said: “I’d been constipated for a few days and remember needing to go for a big toilet.
“I felt something odd between my legs and rushed back into the bathroom thinking I’d soiled myself."
“But when I looked in the full-length mirror, I saw my baby’s head between my legs," she added. "The whole thing really was very dramatic.”
Three weeks before the birth, Marie had suffered a sore throat which quickly transcended to streptococcus A; an infection of the blood and vital organs. Despite being given a course of antibiotics, the infection had spread to her womb causing her to go into labour prematurely.
