Ex-boxer Carl Froch reveals daughter's early fight for life.

Former professional boxer Carl Froch has spoken about the traumatic birth of his daughter, revealing she had to fight for her life.

Froch, also known by his nickname "The Cobra", and his fiancee Rachael Cordingley welcomed their daughter, Penelope, on September 11 this year, but she was diagnosed with a serious illness just hours after a traumatic birth.

He told Hello! magazine her birth was complicated by shoulder dystocia, when the baby's head emerges but one of the shoulders becomes stuck behind the mother's pubic bone.

Froch said: " It is fitting that she is a boxer's daughter because she is a fighter. She was fighting for her life the day she was born."

He said that after she was born, Penelope appeared lifeless as she had been starved of oxygen.

"I was in shock. I couldn't speak," Froch said.

"Being a fighter, I tend to take the bull by the horns but I couldn't do anything and that made me feel helpless.



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