A MIRACLE mum has given birth to a "baby in a million."

Katherine Harrison gave birth to little Cai at the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary last Thursday - beating medical odds of a million-to-one.

Mrs Harrison, a pathologist at Bradford Royal Infirmary, was due to give birth to her first child on December 7.

However, last Thursday a GP's test showed she had sugar in her urine and high blood pressure and she was rushed to the Infirmary.

Her husband, David, said: "As soon as she got there she had massive pains in her stomach. It was a constant pain rather than the waves of contractions."

She was given an emergency Caesarian section and doctors discovered Mrs Harrison had two small wombs, one of which had burst.

Doctors fought to save Mrs Harrison and her baby as their lives hung by a thread.

Mrs Harrison's husband added: "The doctors had never seen it before. As soon as they opened her stomach, the baby was just there unable to breathe."

Doctors retrieved the baby and took him to the special care baby unit. They then spent more than two hours stabilising Mrs Harrison, 28.

Mr Harrison said: "The doctors were just shouting at each other trying to save them both. I thought they were both going to die.

"If it had been another five minutes they would have gone."

Mr Harrison said it was unbelievable that his wife could have children.

He added: "We had been trying for a baby, but we didn't know about the wombs.

"It is rare for a woman in that situation to get pregnant and even rarer to go full term and be able to give birth."

Cai, who was born weighing 7lb 6oz, is now doing well and mum and baby returned home to Scapegoat Hill on Monday evening.

Mr Harrison said he was happy they were well - but he was worried about proposals to strip Huddersfield of its special care baby unit and ability to deal with complex births.

He said: "We are just so thankful. It is unbelievable.

"No-one would have realised what the problem was until it was too late.

"That is the problem. If my wife had had to travel to Halifax, she and my little boy would have died.

"The switch will cost lives - and it could have been my wife and child's."

Mrs Harrison told the Examiner she was so thankful to the midwives, doctors and staff at the Infirmary.

She added: "As a doctor I recognise the need to centralise services to be able to offer a good service.

"But, this is a different issue.

"How do you know when someone is having a normal birth? It was down as a normal birth for me.

"If services change and there is no provision in Huddersfield then lives will be lost.

"It could have been me and Cai this time - thank God it wasn't."