''My fiancé delivered our baby in the bath - then saved her life"

A mum has credited her partner with saving their baby girl's life after he helped deliver her in the bath at home before giving her mouth-to-mouth.

Reece Burns, 28, from Tameside, had to spring into action after his wife-to-be Shelby Lomax's waters broke and she suddenly went into labour.

Unable to make it to hospital, Reece had to follow the instructions of a 999 operator to deliver baby girl Casaiya alone at their home in Droylsden. Terrifyingly, she was born 'blue' and not breathing with Reece fearing she may have been stillborn.

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However, as instructed he blew air into her airways and she began breathing lightly just as paramedics arrived at their home in Droyslden and took over.

Casaiya and Shelby, 27, were rushed to hospital and the baby spent three days on a neonatal intensive care unit. But both mum and baby are well and now back at home, where the tot is 'thriving' following the whirlwind delivery.

Shelby, a supermarket supervisor, has been with Ph.D. student Reece for five years and they got engaged last July. They already have a son Koah, three, and Shelby is step-mum to Reece's son Ezra, six. Casaiya's due date was last Friday (March 22) but there was no movement and Shelby said she slept as normal that night.

On Saturday morning she said she woke at 6am and was experiencing what she said she thought were 'mild cramps.' "In between I was just tidying the house, and I put a load of washing on" she said. "Looking back now they will have been early labour pains, but I didn't think it was labour, I just thought they were cramps as I could still walk around and do normal things."

"I thought it takes hours and hours to get to active labour. I'd had the cramps for an hour and my waters hadn't gone" she