While the Christmas story revolves around the birth of one baby in particular, one mother in Porthleven has her own festive bundle of joy to celebrate.

Megan Woodhams, from Church Row, was one of 114 mothers to give birth in Cornwall between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day, at Truro’s Royal Cornwall Hospital, in community hospital birthing units or at home.

Mia-May Woodhams was the fourth baby born at the Treliske hospital on Christmas Day, arriving at 3.08pm weighing 6lb 5oz.

Due on Christmas Eve, little Mia-May decided to delay her arrival in order to make an entrance on one of the most important days of the year.

Mum Megan, 21, said: “I was hoping she would leave it a day, but she had other plans.

“I went into the hospital at quarter past ten in the morning on Christmas Day, but we were out by ten past eight in the evening, so we were back home for [the end of] Christmas. I didn’t have a Christmas dinner though.”

It wasn’t too much of a shock for Megan, who said she had “had my suspicions”, adding: “Everyone was hoping for Christmas Day except me. It’s quite nice though.”

In order that Mia-May does not miss out on a full day of birthday celebrations, which could be overtaken by Christmas festivities, Megan is planning to hold a ‘half birthday’ each year in June.

Megan, a former Porthleven Primary School and Helston Community College pupil who now works for the Money Group in Truro, described Mia-May as “good as gold,” adding that she had already developed a routine, was a fan of sleep and was generally quite content.

In Cornwall there were nine babies born on Christmas Day at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, six on Boxing Day and just five on New Year’s Day, which a spokesperson described as “relatively quiet” – although the total amount born between the two celebrations was about average.