A toddler who plunged 60 feet from the window of her fifth-floor flat has stunned doctors with her “miracle” recovery.
Doctors feared Aaliyah Boamah, two, would never be able to walk again after breaking her spine in the fall.
But just five weeks later, Aaliyah is running around her hospital ward as she plays football with her nurses and physiotherapists.
Her mother Philippa, 22, told the Standard: “She’s a real fighter.”
Boamah, an aspiring actress and model, said she left the sitting room for a few seconds to check on dinner last month: “I went into the kitchen to make her food and heard my mum shout ‘Where’s the baby?’”
“When I came out of the kitchen it was really quiet, which was worrying as she’s always running around making noise. Then I saw the window open wider than I left it and just thought ‘Oh my god’.”
Aaliyah had managed to clamber up onto the window sill and had fallen onto the grassy play area beneath their 
flat in Webber Street, Borough.
Boamah looked and saw her daughter “sprawled on the ground”. She said: “I just screamed.” 
“I fell down the stairs I was running so fast. My heart was pounding, I was confused and crying and trying to phone the ambulance. It’s every mother’s worst nightmare. The toddler climbed up and out of the open window of the flat”
“She was just lying on the floor saying ‘mama, mama’.”
Paramedics lifted Aaliyah onto a stretcher before she was taken to the Royal London Hospital with her mother praying in the ambulance.
The 22-year-old said: “She opened her eye the tiniest bit, that gave me hope.”
Aaliyah was given an emergency operation to reattach her spine, and treat broken ribs and legs.
But just over a month later the toddler is defying the expectations of doctors at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.
Her mother, who is staying with her at the hospital, said: “It’s definitely a miracle she’s walking again, all the medics have said.”
The air ambulance team can’t believe it.
“She’s doing well and they’re waiting to discharge us, but she needs some serious rehab on her bones.”
“I’m relieved — it could have been so much worse, there are other kids on her ward who’ve suffered really badly from the same type of falls.”
Boamah is now calling on Southwark council to ensure child-proof windows are installed in flats, especially those on high floors.
She added: “She wants to go home now but she’s making the most of it.
She’s back to her old self, telling the nurses off and everything.
She even tries to escape in the night and you just think ‘Oh God, not again’.”
Cllr Peter John, Council Leader, said: “This was a terrible accident and I’m hugely relieved to hear Aaliyah is recovering well from her fall.”
“As a landlord, we make our properties as safe as possible, but limiting exits like windows, whilst at the tenant’s discretion, is not advised as it can lead to other risks, such as preventing escape in the event of a fire.”