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A new mum is facing jail after her baby boy was born DRUNK when she collapsed during a bender while heavily pregnant.

Surgeons were forced to perform an emergency caesarean after the 24-year-old woman collapsed while trying to buy more booze at an off-licence in Tomaszow, Poland.

The tot was born clinging to life with severe alcohol poisoning due to the excess levels of liquor in the mother's bloodstream.

Hospital spokesman Wojciech Zawalski said: "The unborn baby was in severe danger of being poisoned to death.

"When he came out his heart was barely beating and he had 4.5g of alcohol in his blood."

The blood-alcohol limit for drivers in Poland is 0.2g, meaning the infant was born at nearly 23 times the drink-drive limit.

The baby, who was two weeks premature, is recovering in an intensive care incubator where he is being weened off alcohol.

Police and prosecutors are now quizzing the mother over charges of endangering the life of an unborn child.

"The matter is under investigation," said a police spokesman.