Mother hiccups up to 100 times a day for almost 5 years after falling pregnant with her first child.
Ms Doherty, 24, began hiccuping in January 2008 while pregnant with her daughter Emily, and has continued to hiccup up to 100 times a day ever since.
When the young woman visited the doctors she was told hiccups were common in pregnant women, and dismissed it from her mind.
But even after she gave birth the hiccups didn’t stop, she eventually got pregnant and gave birth for the second time and in the process she has tried everything including all the known hiccup remedies from holding her breath to drinking water upside down but nothing cured her bizarre condition.
She said to Dailymail: ‘I started hiccuping when I was around four months pregnant with Emily. I went to the doctor and I was told it was a part of pregnancy and a hiccup could be a way of getting air to your baby quickly.
‘So I thought nothing of it, until three months after having Emily I still had hiccups.
‘It’s not usually fits of hiccups but just one very loud hiccup every hour. At worst I’ve had up to 100 hiccups a day, I’ve even started hiccuping in my sleep occasionally.
‘I can hiccup really loud, so it can be a bit embarrassing, some people say I sound like a dinosaur.
‘I get some very funny looks, especially from old ladies because if I’m quite close to them when I hiccup I can often make them jump.
‘I’ve tried everything to cure the hiccups, all the old wives’ tales from holding my breath to drinking water upside down, to asking people to scare me.
‘My partner Matthew still jumps out at me every now and again to try and help but nothing works.’
