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A grandmother has given birth to a “miracle” baby despite being sterilised.
Debbie Amos, 43, has three grown up children and didn't realise she was carrying another baby until she was six months pregnant.
She gave birth to a healthy boy, Connor, last week. He is younger than her two grandchildren.
Mrs Amos was sterilised at Colchester General Hospital 13 years ago. Doctors said the procedure to block her fallopian tubes was 99 per cent effective.
Mrs Amos and her husband Melvyn, 57, had no idea she was pregnant. She said: “I was doubly sterilised... so I thought there was no way I could get pregnant again. And as you get older it is harder to conceive anyway, so it is the last thing I expected.”
Connor was born on 12 November and is brother to Kerri, 24, Glen, 19, and Rebecca, 16. He is also uncle to Kerri's children Callum, three, and 10-month-old Courtney.
Mrs Amos, from Colchester, said: “When you think of all the things that could have gone wrong, he is just a little miracle.”
