But the 25-year-old, from Melbourne, was shocked to discover she was actually a pregnant.
Not only that, but she was 10cm dilated and due to give birth at any minute.
She was taken to hospital and give birth to a boy, who she named Flynn, just hours later on January 23.
Caity said that initially she had been “in complete shock” – especially as an “overly organised” person.
She had been having regular periods for four days every month and didn’t suffer any morning sickness.
Her body hadn’t changed in the months before she gave birth – she was still the same dress size and could fit comfortably in her bras, she added.
Unaware she was pregnant, Caity had been partying, drinking alcohol and playing rough contact sports in the weeks before giving birth.
Speaking to the Sunday Project, she said: “New Year’s and Christmas I spent on the Mary river, skiing, kneeboarding, wakeboarding, tubing – everything that you shouldn’t be doing.
“I played netball all through my pregnancy – rough games of netball.
“I drank New Year’s and my birthday – and homemade. Not just purchased from the liquor store, it was homemade midori – and copious amounts of it.”
Asked how long between finding out she was expecting and giving birth, Caity said: “Not even 24 hours. I got told 1.30 in the morning and then was in active labour giving birth on the Wednesday. So Tuesday morning to Wednesday.”
“I was in complete and utter shock, it was just like, ‘how far along am I?’
“Clearly far along, because I hadn’t been with anyone for a very long time.”
I was in complete and utter shock, it was just like, ‘how far along am I?
Caity Mason
Caity said that while she doesn’t regret a thing, she does feel like she missed out on a “regular pregnancy”.
She told Daily Mail Australia,: “When I look back, I do feel like I missed out on the ultrasound pictures and all the timeline photos.
“We have our days but he’s such a perfect little boy. He came into my life for a reason.”
She added that she does know who Flynn’s father is but he has decided he doesn’t want to be a part of their lives.
“I just worry that sometimes maybe I’m not enough for Flynn,” she added.
Carrying a baby for nine months without knowing may seem unfathomable, but it’s far more common that it appears.
An estimated 1 in 450 pregnant women doesn’t actually find out they are pregnant until at least their 20th week of pregnancy.
While as many as 1 in 2,500 women can be totally unaware of their pregnancies until they go into labour.
MORE ON PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
Previously, we told how a woman who was rushed to hospital with tummy pains after eating a McDonald’s found out she was giving birth.
And another woman found out she was eight months pregnant four days after a boozy hen do despite her husband having a vasectomy.
A few years back, we reported how a hairdresser who didn’t know she was pregnant until her waters broke delivered her own baby alone in 30 minutes… and tied off the umbilical cord with a hair bobble.
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