KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The grandmother of a woman who gave birth to a baby in a McDonald's toilet said her granddaughter didn't know she was pregnant, didn't know she'd given birth and never intended to hurt her baby.

The grandmother, who eagerly told her story, didn't want to be identified, but she said the baby boy her family called Pooh Bear was their miracle baby.

"He is a miracle baby, because the whole time he was in that commode, I believe that God had his hands around that baby to protect him until they could get him out, cut the cord, because he wasn't breathing yet," the grandmother said.

She said her 20-year-old granddaughter was working at the drive-through window at a Midtown McDonald's when she felt a pain in her side and asked her boss if she could use the restroom.

When she didn't return in about 10 minutes, her boss sent another female worker into the restroom to check on her, and the woman told that co-worker to get help, that she couldn't stand up.

An ambulance was called, and paramedics arrived.

Her granddaughter was still on the stool, and when the paramedics looked in the bowl, they saw the baby.

"They asked her what she tried to do, and she said, well I tried to flush it several times. She didn't know she'd had a baby," the grandmother said.

The paramedics rushed the 2-pound preemie to a hospital.

Because he had been attached to his mother by the umbilical cord, the baby didn't suffer any damage from being in the toilet water, and he didn't suffer any trauma from the flushing.

"There he was, just a little tiny fellow, 2 pounds 15 ounces. He was just a little thing. I'd never seen a baby that small. We were just in amazement to see him, and we couldn't believe that God had sent us this baby to take care of. We knew right then and there what we were going to have to do. Here's another baby to spoil, so that's what we did. We spoiled him. He's being spoiled very much now," the grandmother said.

The woman's grandmother said that -- along with the mother -- she and her older daughter didn't know the woman was pregnant.

Activist Alonzo Washington met with the woman, and he said it was easy to understand how she -- struggling with her weight -- didn't realize she was pregnant.

Now, following the birth of her son, she's fighting pregnancy-induced high blood pressure that nearly killed her.

She's suffering from kidney failure for reasons her family doesn't understand.

Still, if she can pull through, she wants her baby, her grandmother said.

"She loves her baby. She loves her baby," she said. "When she holds him, she can't believe she's got a baby."

The baby is now 4 pounds, his mother's grandmother said, and the grandmother and her daughter and granddaughter hope to bring him home soon.

"The Lord works in mysterious ways, and he had a hand in this, and this was his way of taking care of her as well as the baby," the grandmother said.

They're also focusing on getting a kidney for the woman.

The mother's been so sick, police haven't been able to interview her, they said.

Investigators will present a case to prosecutors, they said, who will decide whether to prosecute the mother.