Meet Ezra, the shock baby who survived after twin miscarried
WHEN Alisha Tierney was told she had miscarried she was devastated.
The mother-of-five had been thrilled when she found out she and husband Julius, 51, would be adding to their family. But doctors confirmed she had lost the baby after her miscarriage when she was seven weeks pregnant.
So when she started suffering agonising stomach pains five months later, doctors decided to carry out a scan and had some shocking news for her.
She had originally been pregnant with twins and the other baby had survived.
They told her she was now 30 weeks pregnant and could give birth any day. Baby Ezra arrived just four weeks later.
Alisha, 35, from Welwick, East Yorkshire, said: “I couldn’t believe it when they told me. I didn’t even have a bump and I’d been having my periods as normal. But I could see the baby on the scan, so it was definitely true.
“All the family were just as shocked but the children have loved having a new baby brother to play with.”
Alisha had not expected to fall pregnant in October 2019.
She explained: “I had a very difficult birth with my youngest, so we’d said that was definitely it – no more babies. But then one morning I woke up and felt a
sensation in my stomach. I’d already had five children, so I knew I was pregnant again and a test confirmed it.”
But a few weeks later Alisha started to bleed at home. Her husband rushed her to Hull Royal Infirmary where doctors confirmed she had lost the baby.
She said: “We were extremely upset and tried to get on with life as best as we could. I was a mum to five children and it took all my time and energy.
“Then five months later I started having terrible stomach pains, so I booked
an appointment.” The doctor felt Alisha’s stomach and could feel something there so she sent her for an emergency scan.
Alisha said: “I was terrified in case it was going to be bad news. I couldn’t leave my children without a mum. The doctor was worried too.” But the sonographer told her she knew what was causing the pain and showed her the screen.
Ezra was delivered four weeks later at 5lb and taken home to meet siblings Addisson, 13, Harleigh, 11, Kennedie, six, Elijah, four, and Ezekiel, three.