A mother forced to give birth in her own garden has named her new baby Eden.

Katie Gallagher who had the ‘surreal’ birth was helped by family members, neighbours, paramedics and police at her home in Forest Road, Leytonstone on Tuesday (September 29).

The mother-of- two was home with her 1-year-old son Marley having just seen her partner off to work when her contractions started to hit hard, three weeks earlier than expected.

“It was a normal day I was making breakfast and I felt a twinge”, the 25-year-old said.

“Within ten minutes it was all happening, it was horrific.

“I was leaning over the sofa mooing because it helps with the pain, my son climbed over and started mooing like a cow back at me. He thought it was a game.

“I fell to my knees and started crying, hysterically screaming and banging on the walls."

Ms Gallagher had been using an outside toilet in her garden after struggling to climb the stairs during the pregnancy.

She said: “I thought I had more time, but inside the loo I had the worst contraction.

“I took two steps outside and started screaming for help.

“I heard a voice from over the fence saying ‘where are you’? I shouted my door number and then that I was having a baby, but she must have gone by then.

“I had to push I had no other choice, it all happened in less than a minute, he slid down my leg and landed in my trousers.”

Katie’s Grandmother Carol after receiving a frantic phone call managed to get to the terrified mother first.

She said: “I let myself in went running round the house thinking she would be in bed. I asked Marley ‘Where’s Mummy?’ and he pointed to the garden.

“I grabbed the first thing I could find, a tea towel, and wrapped the baby up.

“I put him under my jumper but he was still attached by the umbilical cord to Katie so it was all so surreal.”

Aunt Kim Penrose was second on the scene and arrived with concerned neighbours.

She said: “I was really worried. The baby was so cold and had turned mauve. But then I saw his lip moving and I burst into tears of delight.”

“We were all the police popped their head over the fence and said they had been called to a suspected murder. It didn’t look very good because we were all covered in blood.”

Katie’s partner Daniel Wallace was rushing home from work to get to the birth and was looking up garden based boys names, he dismissed Adam because it was too popular and landed on Eden.