A pregnant Brisbane woman holidaying on the Thailand resort island of Phuket has reportedly been bitten by a shark while swimming in shallow waters.
Six months pregnant, Jane Neame is expected to remain in hospital for a number of days, according to the Phuket Gazette, after suffering a severed tendon in the attack. 
Ms Neame, 37, is a brand manager with the Brisbane-based Navitas, a company that helps the city's booming international student population integrate into university life in the city.
She was holidaying in Phuket with her partner Robert Passmore when the attack occurred on Tuesday.
According to local media, it was the third day of the couple's holiday.
The attack occurred in waist deep water as the couple went for a morning swim.
"I may have stood on it, and then it bit me. It's hard to say because it bit underneath my foot and on top," Ms Neame told the newspaper.
"I felt it tear at me. It felt like a shark.
"I'm from Queensland, so we have sharks there. I wouldn't have expected sharks to be here."
She called to Mr Passmore for help. 
"I'm pregnant, so I didn't want to get too anxious, I wanted to stay calm," Ms Neame said.
Marine experts told local media it was likely to have been a shark attack.
"It's very painful," Ms Neame said from her hospital bed.
"It severed my tendon. The fish took it away."
However, she said the attack would not deter her from returning to the sea.

 "I'm not scared. I love the ocean," she said.
A spokesman for the Bangkok Hospital Phuket, Piyarat Techamanasikul, said it was unclear if the injury was caused by a bite from a shark.
Deep sea divers in Phuket say it is rare to see sharks in the seas near the resort island and even in more open water.
Mr Piyarat said Ms Neame had undergone successful surgery, but it was still too early to say if she would regain full use of the affected toes on her left foot.
"She underwent surgery yesterday, and as of now it's just one day ago, so (we'll) see some progress," he said. "It's in progress, so it's not a definite result as yet."
- with AAP