'Mum, please don't be mad but I've just had a baby and she's on the kitchen table.'

A brave teen mum, who didn’t know she was pregnant until she was in labour, admits she could have died after giving birth home alone.

“The day my daughter was born was probably the most chaotic yet most exciting day of my life,” Emma Croftswilson wrote on the website Stuff.

In the post, the 19-year-old New Zealander says she was home alone when her labour began in February 2016.

“I couldn’t scream because of the amount of pain I was experiencing. I didn’t even know I was pregnant until I saw her head coming so yes, of course, I was absolutely terrified,” she wrote.

The Kaiapoi teenager said straight after she gave birth, she wrapped her baby girl in a towel, checked her newborn was breathing and “cut her [umbilical] cord with a pair of kitchen scissors”.

“I could have died,” she said.

“I sent a text to my mum – who was working – saying: ‘mum please don’t be mad or angry at me, but I’ve just had a baby and I don’t know what to do so please help me’.

“She called me straight away asking if I was just being crazy, or if I did actually have a baby. I said yes, I actually did, to which she replied: ‘where is the baby then Emma? I can’t hear it crying!’. My reply was: ‘it’s on the kitchen table mum’.

Emma said her mother arrived home and dropped to her knees and cried.

Her father arrived later and was “in shock” after finding “blood all over the lounge floor”.

“After the chaos died down, the ambulance came and took me to the hospital to make sure everything was ok.

Emma’s baby was “perfectly healthy”, weighing 2.94kg.

“I named her Hannah-Marie Teira, born 11/02/2016 at roughly 2:45pm,” she said.

“To this day she is still as happy and healthy as ever.”

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