A QUICK-thinking Malvern man saved his new baby son from strangulation during a dramatic home birth.

Stevie Smith had to deliver his son at his Moat Way home after partner Kim Roberts suddenly went into labour.

Ms Roberts, aged 23, felt a pain in her back at around 6am last Tuesday (May 27) and the couple called for an ambulance, expecting the labour to last some time.

"I was six hours in labour with my first child," she explained.

However, before the paramedics arrived at the scene 45 minutes later she had already given birth, with Mr Smith having taken instructions from a nurse over the phone.

Because their telephone was on the ground floor and Ms Roberts was upstairs, Mr Smith was forced to keep running up and down between the two.

However, when his son's head appeared it was clear there was something wrong - the baby had turned blue from lack of oxygen because the umbilical cord had wrapped round his neck and cut off his air supply.

However, the 27-year-old production worker managed to untangle the cord and unblock the baby's airways so he could breath again. After wiping his new son's face, Mr Smith confessed he was left in "complete shock".

"I was just so relieved," he said.

By the time the paramedics arrived the family's newest addition, eight-pound Callum, was doing fine, as was his mother. There was no need for either of them to go to hospital.

Callum's two-and-a-half-year-old brother Levi witnessed the whole event, as there was no time to get him out of the way.

"He saw it all, unfortunately," Ms Roberts said. "He was a bit in shock, but he seems to be OK."