Kayden Coleman thought his tummy was big due to a lack of exercise
Kayden was stunned when he first realized his growing belly was not the result of a lack of exercise, but a baby. With a broad smile, the 29-year-old explains: “I never thought about
getting pregnant. Because of the male hormones, I didn’t think it was a
possibility. It was definitely a surprise.”
Kayden was going through the mastectomy – or “top surgery” as he
calls it – when he became pregnant. Doctors said it was because he’d had
to take a break from the hormones before the operation.
He says: “To have a mastectomy you have to be off hormones for six weeks.”
Kayden didn’t think that small span would put him at risk of getting
pregnant. But a few months later he started to feel strange. “One day my
back was killing me,” he says. “Elijah was going to give me a massage,
so I lay on my front on the bed. It felt like there was a pillow under
my stomach but there was no pillow.”
Kayden thought he was just bloated. “I actually said, ‘I think I should go get a pregnancy test’. We were joking about it.”
A
few minutes later, it dawned on Kayden that his “joke” might actually
be serious. Nervously, they went out to get a pregnancy test. He says:
“I took the test the same night. I felt nervous but excited. The results
were conclusive but I still didn’t believe it.”
When he went to
the doctors, Kayden found he was 21 weeks pregnant. “I was shocked. It
took a while to process it. But I was also busy figuring out how we
could make things work in such a short space of time.”
Born female: Kayden, pictured as a little girl, had been living as a man for years when he fell pregnant
Elijah (l) with baby Azaelia and husband Kayden, who gave birth
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