The BBC's Fergus Walsh on the miracle baby

Tiffany Taylor was pronounced dead by staff at the Hope Hospital in Salford, Greater Manchester, when she was born four weeks ago.

After 20 minutes spent trying to resuscitate her, health staff gave her up for dead.

She was handed to her parents, Pauline Taylor and Tommy O'Connor, and, as her father was cradling her, she showed signs of life.

She was then rushed to the neo-natal intensive care unit and was allowed home last weekend.

Cerebral palsy

Her parents have been told she will suffer cerebral palsy because she was starved of oxygen before birth, but they will not know how severe the condition will be for 18 months.

Pauline Taylor: her first baby was stillborn

Mr O'Connor described her as "a miracle baby".

Ms Taylor said: "If it was not for Tommy holding her she would not be alive."

The birth had to be induced because Ms Taylor had problems with her blood pressure.

Moments before the birth doctors noticed the baby was in distress.

Ms Taylor's first baby was stillborn 19 years earlier and she said she had suffered flashbacks to that experience.

The couple are planning to lodge a formal complaint against the hospital. They said they had to argue with staff for 20 minutes that Tiffany was still alive.

National guidelines

Mr O'Connor said: "I saw that she was breathing. I was saying this to everybody, but a doctor told me she was dead and these were her last gasps."

Staff at Hope Hospital say they followed national guidelines

However, a spokeswoman for the hospital said staff had followed national guidelines which state that staff should try to revive a stillborn baby for 20 minutes.

She added that Tiffany did not gasp for breath until 22 minutes after the resuscitation attempts were stopped.

"Staff explained to the parents that this does not necessarily mean she is alive because this does happen with stillborn babies sometimes," she said.