A WOMAN has told how she gave birth in secret in her bedroom when she was just 16 years old – and told nobody for four days.

Sneaking out constantly during her youth, Miranda Ponthieux had grown up with a man she had known since nursery and fallen pregnant with his baby.

After noticing pregnancy-like symptoms, Miranda pushed them away as she remained skinny, not showing in the slightest that she could be pregnant.

The now 40-year-old from West Monroe, Louisiana, USA, said: “I was not feeling well, my stomach still kept cramping, and I told my mom, and she was like, ‘Oh, you’re probably going to start your period’.

“I had a baby in my room, and I did not know what to do.

"I was like freaking out big time. I had this baby in my room, and I had no idea what to do with it.”

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