Dancer, 17, is rushed to hospital with stomach pains to discover she is pregnant -

A dancer who was taken to hospital by her mother when she started suffering stomach pains was shocked to discover she was in labour and about to give birth. 

Jodie Smith, 17,  started feeling unwell last Monday night, but when her concerned mother Lesley, 47, took her to A&E in the early hours, doctors revealed she was pregnant and about to become a mother.

Just hours later, on July 23, Miss Smith gave birth to son Jack Arthur, who weighed in at 8lbs, while shocked Lesley rushed to buy baby supplies.

Keen dancer Jodie Smith, from West Yorkshire, (right) had no idea she was pregnant until she went into labour last month. She and her boyfriend Danny Yeoman, 19, (left) are thrilled with their new arrival but admit they do both feel 'shell-shocked'

Miss Smith, a keen dancer from Carleton Glen in West Yorkshire, had no idea she was pregnant as she hadn’t put on any weight.

Mother Mrs Smith, said: 'We are still a bit shell-shocked. Jodie hasn’t stopped smiling’.

'She has been going to college, going to work, doing her dance classes, going to the gym, all as normal. She wasn’t ill and looked just as slim all the way through.'

She said Miss Smith started feeling unwell with stomach pains last Monday evening, while she and her husband Michael, 43, were out for the evening.

Bouncing baby boy: Jodie gave birth to a little boy called Jack Arthur in the early hours of the morning on July 23. He weighed a healthy 8lb

Mrs Smith said: 'She’d gone to her boyfriend’s, but came home because she was feeling so unwell. 

'I told her to take two paracetamol, but I got a call from her brother later that evening saying Jodie was still poorly and had been sick.'

'At 1am she came and woke us up and I called the on-call GP, but they told us we’d have to go to the Wakefield walk-in clinic.

'She was in so much pain by then I knew we’d never get her there, so we took her to A&E.'

Once at Pontefract Hospital, doctors quickly discovered Miss Smith was pregnant and in labour, and transferred her to Pinderfields in Wakefield, where she gave birth in the early hours.

As Miss Smith, a dancer, had no ante-natal car, doctors were initially unsure what stage the pregnancy was at - shortly before she went into labour

As she’d had no ante-natal care they were unsure what stage the pregnancy was at.

New grandmother Mrs Smith added: 'I was in the supermarket at 6.30am buying baby stuff, because we had absolutely nothing.

'The midwives think Jack was a couple of weeks overdue, and certainly full-term. He’s had all his checks and he’s fine. Even they can’t believe it.'

Miss Smith, who sat her A-levels this summer, is still planning to go to college to study dance. Her boyfriend, Danny Yeoman, 19, said: 'It’s been a shock, we’re still getting used to it.'

Jack’s surprise arrival has also brought the family up to five living generations, and Mrs Smith said the family were delighted with the new arrival.

She added: 'They’re all really pleased, but a bit overwhelmed at the moment.'