A mum and her five-month-old baby became cover stars as midwives at Airedale Hospital launched an information booklet.

After the Birth of Your Baby was the idea of midwife Shona Featherstone and ward administrator Hilary Thorpe and copies will be distributed to mothers in hospital before they go home with their baby.

Shona said: "In the past we gave ladies a whole handful of leaflets after they had had their baby as we have so much information to give them.

"Our idea was to have everything they needed in one place, so they could just pick it up and have a read while their baby is sleeping."

Sharon Clymo, of Thwaites Brow, Keighley, who appears on the cover of the pamphlet, had just given birth to baby Calum when the booklet was nearly complete.

As the staff wanted to use a real model she was the ideal candidate.

Sharon and baby Calum have been enjoying the limelight. Sharon said: "I get friends and neighbours ringing me up saying is that you?'. They all think the booklet is a great idea.

"You don't always have time with a new baby to read every leaflet at once - it's so handy having it in one easy place so you can just pick it up when you have a minute to yourself."

Staff at the hospital deliver around 2,300 babies every year and wanted one of their own to be the cover star.