A Croydon mum who gave birth on her bathroom floor last year has had her third child in the same room almost a year later.

Anne Marie Young and her partner Sean Lynch appeared in the Croydon Guardian when their second child Rebecca was born between their bath and toilet.

When she became pregnant again the proud mother did everything she could to make sure the birth would take place in the comfort and safety of a Mayday Hospital bed.

But fate flushed her hopes away when the latest addition to the family - John Samuel - also came into the world via their New Addington bathroom.

John, who is now almost two weeks old, was delivered by proud dad Sean who is becoming a bit of a widwifery expert after delivering Rebecca on November 12, 2005.

Anne Marie, from Dunley Drive, said: "It had been a long running joke all through my pregnancy this year with friends saying that maybe this one would be born on the kitchen floor.

"But I was convinced I would know and be able to get to hospital in time with John - but no such luck."

On the morning of October 26, two-and-a-half weeks before her expected date, she woke with pains in her stomach.

Anne Marie added: "I should have thought and put two and two together because Rebecca was four weeks early, but I just didn't think it could be labour because all the way through my pregnancy I had woken up with pain in the morning.

"I went to the toilet and the pain got worse so I woke Sean up and asked him to come into the bathroom."

Sean asked Anne-Marie if she thought the baby was coming. Moments later her waters broke in the toilet and the family's newest member was well on his way.

"I just couldn't believe it, I knew it was coming so we phoned an ambulance because of what had happened last time and I got on all fours and straight away the head came out and Sean delivered."

The ambulance crew arrived immediately and one of the paramedics was also at Rebecca's birth.

John was born at 7.44am weighing six pounds seven ounces.

She added: "I think Sean was a bit scared this time, I could tell in his voice when he was on the phone to his mum as when the head came out he thought the cord was round John's neck but it was his hand under his chin."

Anne Marie has since been told by doctors she is a spontaneous deliverer'. Her first baby, 18-year-old David, took just over two-and-a-half hours to come into the world.

Anne-Marie was taken to Mayday as she was suffering with after-birth pain but is now at home looking forward to telling her two little ones about the story of the bathroom floor.

She added: "I have the Croydon Guardian cutting of Rebecca's birth in a frame and I hope to do the same for John.

"My first son David could not believe it when I told him it had happened again, I just think my bathroom must be a lucky place!"