A mum-to-be claims her life and that of her unborn baby were saved thanks to a car crash.
Pregnant Chloe Grant went to hospital to get checked over after a "little shunt" and doctors found the 20-year-old had a potentially deadly condition.
Now Chloe and partner Jack Farrell are celebrating the birth of their "princess" Amelia Rose.
Born three months premature, she weighed just 1lb 9oz - less than a pineapple - but is now growing stronger, Chronicle Live reports.
Proud dad Jack beamed: "She's our little miracle. The crash was a blessing in disguise. The car literally had just a few scratches.
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"She decided to go on the off chance being pregnant, even if it was just for shock."
Tests at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead though showed Chloe had protein in her urine while her blood pressure was "sky high".
Doctors diagnosed pre-eclampsia - a condition that affects around 6% of pregnancies and is usually diagnosed after 20 weeks.
In Chloe's case, she was 24 weeks pregnant.
While most cases are mild and cause no complications, if untreated, it can progress into eclampsia - which affects around one in a hundred pregnant women.
That can cause fits, convulsions and - in extreme cases - death.
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Jack admitted: "If she hadn't had the car crash, she wouldn't have known about it. We just had no idea about this at all."
The Gateshead couple then faced a nervous fortnight until Chloe was rushed in for an emergency c-section at just 26 weeks.
Both Chloe and Amelia Rose are still in hospital.
"They are both doing brilliantly," said Jack proudly.
"I've been having to finish work and go over to spend as much time as possible with them, and the staff are amazing - I can't fault them.
"We are seeing Amelia all of the time now, and I spent most of yesterday with her.
"But this was all just really unexpected. But we are over the moon and ecstatic - both of us."
