Jackson Taylor was travelling with his mother and sister when their car crashed head on with another vehicle on September 15.
The force from the injury led Taylor's head to be pulled apart from his neck in an internal decapitation.
The toddler was airlifted to a hospital in Brisbane where top medics were able to reattach the boy's vertebrae using wire and a piece of his rib during a six-hour operation, 'Daily Express' reported.
The toddler is now wearing apparatus to keep his body stable and it will be removed in eight weeks.
After that Taylor would be able to live a normal and healthy life again, doctors said.
Taylor's parents, Andrew and Rylea, have described the surgery and their son's recovery as a "miracle.
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