Strength of baby amazes doctors

Amara Chiedozie can hold her own feeding bottle at just three weeks. Photo / Supplied

Glugging milk from a bottle, Amara Chiedozie looks like any other contented 3-week-old.

Except, that is, for the fact she is already capable of holding the container on her own.

Even more incredibly, her mother claims she has been doing it since she was three days old. The strength of her grip at such a tender age has amazed her family and medics. Babies are usually able to hold a bottle unaided from around 6 months.

Her mother Onyi Chiedozie, 20, said: "When we were feeding, she started shaking, then she just grabbed the bottle. She was holding it by herself.

"If she is really hungry, she starts shaking. Then she will just grab the bottle as you give it to her."

Chiedozie, a single mother from Chadwell Heath in Essex, makes sure she is always watching her daughter when she is feeding herself. She said: "Sometimes I hold her or sometimes you can prop her up with a pillow and give her the bottle. I'm always watching her - I don't let her out of my sight."

Amara weighed 2.8kg when she was born on August 3 at Queen's Hospital in Romford.

Chiedozie said her progress had astounded medical professionals. The student added: "Even nurses are really surprised. When my health support nurse came, she was shocked as well. She couldn't believe that this could happen.

"Whenever we go to appointments, we take pictures of her doing it. The midwife and even the doctor we had an appointment with on Saturday were actually amazed. They couldn't believe it."

- Daily Mail