Ryan Colquhoun, from Glasgow, was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 so tiny and weak, his hand only wrapped half-way around his mother Claire Nobile’s fingertip, but was somehow revived.

Ryan Colquhoun was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 17 weeks early but pulled through

A miracle premature 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 was brought back to life in a sandwich bag after his heart stopped for 40 minutes. Doctors desperately tried “one more time” to revive Ryan Colquhoun after he was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 17 weeks early at 1lb 7oz (just 650 grams).

His devastated mum Claire Nobile, 25, told the Daily Record she feared the worst.

But medics kept him in the plastic bag to keep warm and worked on him for 40 minutes in a resuscitation room at Princess Royal Maternity Hospital in central Glasgow. And, against all odds, he pulled through and is now about to celebrate his first 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day.

Claire Nobile, 25, holds Ryan almost one year after he was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧

Claire, from Glasgow, said: “They never gave up the fight for him. They worked on him for about 40 minutes.”

Ryan, who was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 so tiny, is hand only wrapped half-way around his mum’s fingertip, has since survived a collapsed lung, a bleed to the brain, E.coli, 51 days on a ventilator and four blood transfusions. He was also treated for hypothermia and sepsis and needed laser eye surgery at 16 weeks old to treat a rare condition to prevent him from going blind.

Claire said Ryan was so small he fitted in her bra

But Claire, who has two older 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren, says he is her “little warrior”. I call him Ryan the Lion – he never gave up fighting. It was one hell of a journey but it was the most rewarding,” the mum-of-three added. They worked a miracle on him. He’s living proof that they can survive this. They were there in minutes and after one push he was out and in the plastic bag. There was no sound and he was whisked away.”

Claire initially thought she miscarried when she started to bleed not long after she found out she was pregnant.

The 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 weighed just 1lb 7oz and doctors feared for his life

But her tummy continued to grow and at 17 weeks, a scan confirmed she was still carrying her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥. Just six weeks later, however, the single mother was admitted to hospital after her waters broke while she was at home with her two young daughters on February 4. She was given steroid injections to boost her un𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦’s lung development and she expected to go home a few days later.

But Claire said: “I woke up at 1am and I felt like I was bursting for the loo. I jumped up and went to the toilet and something didn’t feel right, so I put my hand down and, lo and behold, there he was. I just held my hand down there thinking, ‘what if he falls’ and waddled out the door to get the nurses. The doctors came and warned me that they were really struggling because he was so tiny. They had the tiniest tube they could get and they were going to try one more time but, if nothing happened, to be prepared. Well, that was me, I just broke down.”