A mum has attributed her unborn baby with ‘saving her life’ after she was diagnosed with cancer.

Danielle Wright went to the hospital after experiencing ‘so much pain’ and was diagnosed with breast cancer, which had spread to her brain, liver, neck, spine and pelvis.

When the mum-of-one was pregnant with her son Joseph, now seven, she experienced pelvic girdle pain and to begin with Danielle thought that’s what she was suffering from again.

But as she approached week 20 in her pregnancy the 39-year-old knew something was wrong when she fractured her neck and was suffering from terrible headaches.

She told the Liverpool Echo : “One day, I was simply walking to the kitchen and I heard a massive crack. I’d managed to fracture my neck but I’d barely moved. I knew something wasn’t right.

“My partner James, Joseph and I were on our way to a family holiday for New Year but the headaches were so bad, I asked James if we could go to hospital on the way.

“I knew something wasn’t right and the fact that I was nearly 20 weeks pregnant at this point, made me all the more determined to find out what was going on.”