A three-week-old baby boy has left a Co Down hospital to be cared for at home with his terminally ill mother.
Jacqui Milner (35) had claimed the local health authority in Newry prevented baby Ethan from returning home with her after his birth as she was unable to care for him.
However, after a care plan involving round-the-clock assistance was devised, the child left hospital care yesterday.
Ms Milner had earlier warned that if she was not given the support she needed, her child might have to be placed in foster care.
She is confined to a wheelchair because she suffers from motor neurone disease and cannot lift, feed or change her infant son.
Newry and Mourne Health and Social Services Trust said it had been "supporting the family for a considerable period and would continue to do so".
Thanks to the agreement on a care plan, the child left hospital surrounded by photographers and accompanied by his mother in her wheelchair.
"I am able to now start to be a full-time mother to him," she said. "I would like to thank everyone who has supported me to enable Ethan to come home.
"I am absolutely over the moon, we can start to spend a little time together now and get to know each other. After three weeks, it's been a long time. But he's here now."
Ms Milner said her family was now "requesting some quiet time to spend with Ethan". She added that every day together was now precious.
Disability Action spokesman Kevin Doherty said the case highlighted the need for disabled people to have their rights "understood and protected".
"Under the European Convention on Human Rights everyone has the right to found a family," he said.
"However, many parents with a disability often find they have to fight to keep their children and get appropriate support to do so."