This is the adorable moment a two-day old premature Scots baby gives her worried parents a wave from her incubator while she was kept in hospital.
Tiny Mia Murray was born six weeks early in February at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, after her mum Laura-Anne Murray's waters broke and doctors discovered Mia was breech.
Mia, from Clydebank, was delivered by C-section and suffered from extreme jaundice so had to be incubated immediately.
Her mum Laura-Anne stayed in hospital for one night following the birth, but the following day she was discharged and told she could go home with husband Allan, 34.
They were told baby Mia would need to stay in the neo-natal unit in Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Children.
The 32-year-old new mum was distraught at the thought of going home without her baby, due to hospital restrictions at the beginning of the pandemic, parents were not allowed to stay on the neo-natal unit.
However Laura-Anne says nursing staff assured her they would take good care of Mia.
She said: "Mia is my first baby so it was overwhelming. I was distraught about leaving her. I just did not imagine leaving that hospital without my baby.
"I was crying and so upset but the staff were amazing. They promised to give me regular updates."
On her first night at home without Mia, a desperate Laura-Anne called the hospital ward for news on her precious baby girl and was told she was doing fine.
One of the medical staff told the anxious mum they were going to send her a video to put her mind at ease and when they did both Laura-Anne and Allan were amazed to see their little girl seemingly reaching out to give them a reassuring wave.
Laura-Anne said: "Half an hour after I'd called the ward I received a wee video on my phone of Mia in her incubator.
"I could see she was fine, which was a relief, then seconds later she just raised her hand as if she was giving us a wee wave to let us know she was fine.
"Obviously that set me off crying again. My hormones were all over the place."
After 18 days in hospital Mia was finally allowed home with her parents and Laura-Anne says. despite her dramatic start in life, Mia is thriving.
She said: "You would never know to look at her that she was premature. She is a wee chunk. She is up on her feet, running around and being mischievous. That wee cheeky character that managed a wave when she was so tiny is definitely still there."
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