A 10ft-long python was caught after it tried to eat a sleeping one-year-old baby in his room.

Kitiya Namyong, 35, heard her son, Nong, crying inside their bedroom in Samut Prakan, central Thailand, so she went to feed him on August 31.

The mother finished breastfeeding inside the mosquito net and put her son down before nodding off, when she felt something moving on the floor.

As the couple do not have any house pets, she was startled and sat up to look.

The shocked mother screamed for help when she saw the huge python staring back at her trying to climb their bed.

Kitiya believes the snake was trying to reach her son when he was still alone in the room, but the mosquito net made it hard for the reptile.

She said: "Luckily, I was with my son when the snake almost reached the bed. It could have really have hurt my baby if I was not there."

Kitiya's husband, Samran Nilkeaw, 40, rushed to the room when he heard his wife screaming for help.

The father ushered the snake out of the room away from his family before he attempted to catch it.

Samran said: "I heard my wife calling for help. I ran into the bedroom and tried my best to save my baby and my wife."

He pulled it by the tail and flung it away but it was too large to catch alone so he called the neighbours for help.

After almost an hour of struggling with the huge snake, they were finally able to put it into a sack.

The men freed the python into the woods away from their village the next morning.