Female MMA fighter Kinberly Novaes has been really, really, really focused on her upcoming Resurrection Fighting Alliance match against Jocelyn Jones Lybarger. How focused? Well, as it turns out, so focused that she recently found out she's six months pregnant—and didn't even notice.
Novaes was scheduled to fight Lybarger on August 21 but had been having some issues making weight in recent weeks. She had also been "feeling sick for awhile" and dealing with "colic, headaches, and cramps." And at one point, she found that she couldn't even run anymore. So Novaes finally went to the doctor thinking she had an intestinal issue and—surprise!—she discovered that she is pregnant with a baby boy.
"We did a morphology ultrasound last week and the doctor said I'm 24 weeks pregnant, almost six months, and my baby is healthy and strong," she told MMAFighting.com. "I was worried because I trained hard, fought, cut weight."
That's not even the most amazing part, though. Somehow, Novaes managed to take part in a fight back on May 17. And she won it, even though, as she found out later, she was 12 weeks pregnant on the day of the match.
This is all very incredible. But how in the world are you six months pregnant and have absolutely no idea? Or at the very least, how do you not suspect it? Either way, Novaes will have one hell of a story to tell her son one day. He hasn't even been born yet, and he's already 1-0.
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[via MMA Fighting]
