A brave Edinburgh mum has spoken of her traumatic experience with childbirth which left her and her 15-month-old baby boy lucky to be alive according to doctors.
Mum-of-two Charlotte Watson's two children were both born premature and while pregnant with her youngest baby, Clay, she woke up during the night to find her bed a pool of blood.
At this point Charlotte was only 31 weeks pregnant and was rushed to hospital for an emergency section. The same day, Clay was born exactly two months ahead of schedule and after asking doctors what caused the excessive bleeding, they said the suffered a abruption of the placenta.