"We went into the delivery room at exactly 12.50am on Thursday. The doctors were incredible, fast, efficient and extremely caring. Just ten minutes later Rene-Charles was here. When you consider it took them five minutes to set up the equipment, it was so fast. The baby came out crying and he had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, but fortunately it wasn't tight."

This is Rene talking about the birth of his miracle baby, born by Caesarean section. The doctors took the right decision; otherwise it could have ended in tragedy. Once Rene had cut the umbilical cord and the singer had the baby in her arms, she held her for a few minutes before washing and dressing him.

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