Baby Daisy Preece was left looking a little flushed after she was born - straight down the toilet.

Mum Sandra, 30, thought it was a flash in the pan when she dashed to the toilet at her home in Tweed Crescent, Bicester, after being woken up by her son Joshua.

But the data inputer for an Oxford publishing firm soon realised that she had gone into labour and made preparations to go to the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

But half-an-hour-later and after her second visit to the loo, baby Daisy was born in a flush.

Sandra said: "I couldn't believe it. I shouted to my husband, Iain, that her head had come out, and the next thing I knew she was born.

"I just grabbed her just in case she went under."

Iain, 32, frantically rang the ambulance and Joshua, two, looked on in amazement. Daisy was born at about 6.45am, weighing in at a healthy 7lb 14oz.

She added: "Joshua was trying to do his little bit to help. He got hold of my wet towel to wrap Daisy in but it was obviously too cold.

"It was totally amazing and it all happened so fast. Of all the places to be born, Daisy had to be born in the loo.

"Despite the drama, everything's fine and we have a lovely, bouncy baby girl."

Daisy suffered a scratch on her back, but both mum and daughter are doing well following the unusual birth.

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