A mother has told of her gruelling terminal liver cancer battle which began just two weeks after her son was born - and left her unable to hold him due to the pain.

Gemma Small, 31, of the town of Horwich, Greater Manchester, received the awful diagnosis just after little Samuel was born in early February this year.

The early help council worker, who may now have as few as six months to live, told the Daily Mail: 'I wish I could do more.

'It makes me upset that I can't and I feel like I'm missing out on time.'

And devastatingly, this is not Ms Small's first fight against the brutal disease.