Mother defies odds to give birth to second Christmas Day baby Mrs Juma and husband Maruf, 33, were in the middle of celebrating Maheera's third birthday at the family's home in Coventry when the contractions began. Mr Juma, a chef, said: "We had my sister who is a student midwife on stand-by because we knew what happened a couple of Christmases before. So when she went into labour we were in safe hands to start with and we got Hamima straight to the hospital. I was praying for another Christmas baby - it's brilliant. Next year will be mad now, we'll have two birthday parties and a Christmas party to organise. But we wouldn't want it any other way - we've had a couple of Christmas miracles there and we feel truly blessed. Bookmaker James Desmond said the odds of the two births both coming on Christmas Day were "phenomenal." He said: "It is a long shot to have a baby on Christmas day, a one in 365 chance, but to have two born on Christmas day years apart puts the odds up to a phenomenal level. We would give you 133,225-1 chance of this happening if you came to put a bet on with us.