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Local Woman Didn't Know She Was Pregnant

An Oak Forest woman's pregnancy test came back positive the day before her daughter's birth. The new mom will appear on TLC's "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant."

Oak Forest resident Amanda Usterbowski rushed into the hospital complaining of chest pains on Saturday, Aug. 21, and left with a diagnosis she didn't see coming: She was five months pregnant.

But her day wasn't over. When she went back to the hospital that night for blood loss in her sleep, doctors told her she was in labor. Her daughter Isabella Rose was born by emergency C-section on Sunday, Aug. 22 at 2:28 a.m.

And soon, the 21-year-old mom the TLC show I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant.

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