An Australian woman who felt disappointed when she was unable to give birth naturally has recalled the 'amazing' moment she delivered her own baby girl.

Carley Valikoula, 36, a nurse from Karratha, pulled little Leilani, now 18 months, from her womb during a revolutionary new form of maternal-assisted caesarean.

Remarkable pictures show the mother of three reaching down, putting her arms around her unborn daughter, and lifting her from the womb herself, instead of leaving it to medics.

Carley, who needed emergency caesareans for her other children, Thomas, now eight, and Jacob, now five, has described the birth as 'amazing' and says she would do it again.