Logan Marr, who has just turned two, looks like any other toddler of his age.
But to his loving parents, he's their miracle baby.
Logan got "stuck" during a traumatic 22-hour labour and was saved by the actions of a quick-thinking doctor who reached inside his mother's birth canal and pulled him out, The Daily Record reports .
The tot, who weighed 9lb 11oz, was deprived of oxygen for so long that medics had to battle for several minutes to bring him back to life when his heart stopped beating.
His condition was so critical that his Apgar scores – which medical staff use to assess a baby's pulse, reactions and breathing – were zero when he was a minute-old.
He spent the next three days wrapped in a special cooling jacket in an effort to stem any long-term brain and organ damage.
Luckily, he's a healthy boy, from Inverurie, Aberdeenshire who loves nothing more than a ride in his 28-year-old father Stewart's digger.
Mum Lauren, 23, said: "To look at him now, you wouldn’t know there had been anything wrong with him. He’s such a character and is always running around.”
Lauren said she knew she would deliver a big baby after developing gestational diabetes during her pregnancy.
She also had a scare when she was wrongly informed at the 20-week scan, the baby only had one eye and had holes in the heart and an unsymmetrical brain.
A second scan revealed there was nothing wrong with the baby.
During her labour, it took her just 20 minutes to deliver Logan's head but he became stuck at his shoulders. She heard medics say he was stuck and not getting oxygen.
“They pushed the emergency button and eight or nine people in green came rushing into the room," she said.
“I remember a lady on top of the bed pushing on my belly, trying the get him out. But that didn’t work and one of the doctors had to put their hands in and pull him out. It was quite traumatic."
Logan spent 72 hours in the cooling jacket to reduce the swelling to his brain and prevent long-term organ damage.
His temperature was then brought back up to normal by slowly increasing it one degree at a time.
After just 11 days in hospital, he was allowed to go home.
Now he’s "always bouncing about on the trampoline – and his dad’s a groundsman and he likes a go in the tractor or digger,” Lauren added.
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