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Six-year-old helps mother deliver

Francesca Goodby with baby sister Roisin [Photo:Daily Mail]

A six-year-old girl delivered her own sister when she was woken up by her mother who had gone labour on the bathroom floor at home - thanks to watching an episode of BBC drama Casualty. She helped her panicking mother to breathe, encouraging her to push and fetched clean towels.

Francesca Goodby calmly talked her mother Kay, 28, through the sudden birth after her waters broke in Bearwood, West Midlands - while her father Michael, 33, was calling 999.

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