Seven-month-old Mya Whittington is back to being a happy baby and her parents are finally carefree as doctors successfully pulled out the two-inch feather that had stuck in her throat.

Mya's parents rushed their daughter to the emergency room on December 8 after they noticed a golf ball-sized lump near Mya’s jaw. Doctors said it was a swollen gland and sent the little girl back home.

On the very next day, he parents noticed a flange sticking out from the lump and they rushed their daughter back to the emergency room.

Aaron, Mya’s father, said, "Sunday morning, when we woke up, it had doubled in size and there was a pimple-looking thing on the end of it. We're looking at it and going, there’s no way this is a swollen gland."

The worried parents were then asked to rush their daughter to a bigger hospital Wichita, where doctors caught the real cause of the lump – a feather had stuck in her throat, and her body was trying to eject it through her neck.

Doctors successfully pulled the feather out of the girl’s neck.

According to the doctors, the whole process would have taken many months. In other words, the feather was the girl’s body for quite a long time.