A sad and miraculous story out of China this week: A newborn baby that was flushed down a toilet and discovered by a woman who heard crying inside a sewage pipe is now resting at the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. The unnamed child fractured his skull in the horrific incident, but has been upgraded from critical to stable as doctors continue to treat him back to health. Said a nurse at Pujiang County People’s Hospital in the city of Jinhua, Zhejiang: “The mother has been found. She is right now in the hospital. I heard she is a 22 year-old single woman. I don’t know the reason she abandoned the baby.” The nurse added that many strangers have responded to this story by arriving at the hospital with diapers, formula and other items. Some have even expressed an interest in adoption. The baby weighs 6.2 pounds and his placenta was still attached when firefighters broke off a piece of the pipe and transported it to the hospital so physicians could safely remove the newborn inside. Local police are treating this as an attempted homicide.
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Chinese Baby Flushed Down Toilet by Mother, Found ALIVE
