GIVING birth is all in a week's work for Ainsworth mum Karen Derbyshire.

For 34-year-old Karen has now given birth to five sons and two daughters . . . one on each day of the week!

New-born Connor completed the special family line-up when he arrived earlier this month and on a Thursday.

Her other six children were born on a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

Tiny Connor completed the amazing coincidence by being born two days early.

And the seven wonders of the week, pictured with dad Neil and mum Karen, are (from left) Jamie, 16 months, Jason, aged 2, Aaron, aged 13, Amy, aged 3, Michael, aged 16, Chloe, aged 5, and new arrival, Connor. Karen, who describes her job as simply a full-time mum, said: "When I found out I was pregnant again, I started joking with my friends, wondering whether or not I would give birth on a Thursday.

"It became a bit of a running joke within the family but Connor was due on a Saturday and I did not think he would arrive early.

"But when I went into labour on a Thursday, I could not believe it. I just burst out laughing. Everyone now thinks it is really funny. We didn't even think of having a bet."

Michael, now aged 16, an A-level pupil at Holy Cross College, Bury, was born on a Sunday. Jason, aged two, arrived on a Monday and Amy, aged three, who attends Christ Church Nursery in Ainsworth, was born on a Tuesday.

Sixteen-month-old Jamie arrived on a Wednesday, new-born Connor was born last Thursday, Chloe, aged five, who attends Christ Church Primary School in Ainsworth, was born on a Friday, and 13-year-old Aaron, a pupil at Elton High School, Bury, on a Saturday.

Karen, of Thompson Avenue, added: "Originally, I did not even want a big family but now I am loving it. None of them was premature and most of them have been born in the middle of the night or the early hours of the morning. Connor, however, arrived at teatime."

Neil Derbyshire (30), who is the father of the five youngest children, said: "It's pretty amazing really.

"I don't think there are many families in the country like us."