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'I gave birth in 40 seconds – I didn’t have to push'

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Credit: SWNS / Cianna Gonzalez

A unmedicated mum gave birth in just 40 seconds when her baby "shot out" - because of a medical rarity.

Cianna Gonzalez, 24, experienced the Ferguson reflex, when the body 'expels' a child.

Also known as the fetal ejection reflex, it is often seen in home births - but rarely in a medical setting.

Stay-at-home mum Cianna, from Philadelphia, says she felt her son "descending" without control.

And he just slipped out after a three-hour labour - where he was caught by a midwife.