ROME
(AFP) – A Salvadorean nun who said she had no idea she was pregnant gave birth
in Italy this week after she felt stomach cramps in her convent and was rushed
to hospital, Italian media reported on Friday.
The
31-year-old mother and her baby boy, who weighs 3.5 kilogrammes (nine pounds),
are doing well and other new mothers in Rieti hospital have begun collecting
clothes and donations for her, the reports said.
“I
did not know I was pregnant. I only felt a stomach pain,” the nun was quoted as
saying at the hospital, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
ANSA
said the nun had named her baby Francesco (Francis) — also the pope’s chosen
title and one of the most popular names in Italy, where St Francis of Assisi is
the much-loved national patron saint.
The
hospital could not be reached for comment.
The
nun belongs to the “Little Disciples of Jesus” convent in Campomoro near Rieti,
which manages an old people’s home and reports said she would keep the baby.
Her
fellow nuns were quoted saying they were “very surprised”.
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