Mother paralysed in a car crash is woken from a coma by her son who then chews her food and mouth feeds her

A son's love: Gao Qianbo, two, helpfully chews up mother Zhang Rongxiang's food and feeds it to her mouth to mouth

Adorable: Gao Qianbo spends every day by his mother's bedside helping her eat and making her laugh

• Zhang Rongxiang was thrust into a coma after a car accident in 2010
• When she was rushed to hospital, doctors found she was pregnant
 • They delivered Gao Qianbo in 2011, who has stayed at her bedside since
• She awoke to the sound of his voice in May, meeting him for first time
 • She can swallow so Gao chews up food and feeds her mouth to mouth

It is an achingly touching symbol of the love that binds a mother and son. A two-year-old boy chews the food of his disabled mother and feeds it to her mouth to mouth - months after she awoke from a coma to meet him for the first time. Zhang Rongxiang was pregnant with Gao Qinbao when a devastating car crash left her in a coma in Shuyang county in Jiangsu Province, China, three years ago. But moments after doctors told her husband, Gao Dejin, that she would never recover, they realised she was with child... and that the baby had miraculously survived the trauma.

The little boy has spent every day by his mother's bedside ever since. Then, to doctor's astonishment, she awoke to the sound of his little voice in May this year.