Mum single-handedly gives birth in a bath tub

A mum who mistook her rapid labour for fake contractions single-handedly gave birth in the bath with her one-year-old in the next room.

Unable to reach her phone, Kiva Mia Jackson had no choice but to let nature take its course - within 30 minutes she had given birth to baby girl Rain Bow.

Pregnant Kiva Mia Jackson was home alone with her son Tao-Kyron when she started getting labour pains at around 8pm Sunday.

Kiva’s baby was not due for another week and she initially thought her stomach ache was another bout of Braxton Hicks contractions.

Yet when she to tried to take a soothing bath, she realised her baby was making an early arrival, reports Manchester Evening News.

Unable to reach her phone, Kiva had no choice but to push and let nature take its course.

Within 30 minutes of her first labour pains, she had given birth to baby girl Rain Bow.

Kiva, 35, from Salford, said: “It all happened so quickly I can barely remember it.

“I had been getting Braxton Hicks throughout my pregnancy, which are just fake contractions, so I thought it was that again.

“I didn’t want to cause a fuss and mither the ambulance service, so I just ran a bath.

“I thought the water would help with the pain.

“But when I went to get in I couldn’t sit down. When I put my hand down, I could feel the baby’s head.

“My one-year-old was crying in the next room but by then I was already in the throws of labour.

“I just had to push until she came out.”

The swift birth seemed to have shocked baby Rain Bow too, who had turned blue during the labour and failed to cry for the first few minutes of her life.

With the umbilical cord still attached, Kiva then had to crawl to her bedroom where she had left her mobile phone to call an ambulance.

“I was so worried when she came out because she was blue and didn’t make a sound,” added Kiva.

“I thought she might not make it but the call handler told me it was quite common for babies to go blue.

“As soon as the paramedics arrived they warmed her up with a dry towel and she was fine.

“I’d always wanted a girl so I was over the moon. She’s absolutely gorgeous.”

Little Rain Bow weighed in at 6lbs 13oz.

Kiva also had to call her eldest son Logan, 14, to come home to meet his baby sister.

“I rang him and said: ‘You’ve got to come back, I’ve had the baby.’

“It was bedlam in the bathroom when he got back.”