Newborn Girl With Umbilical Cord Discovered From Earthquake Rubble

A newborn girl with her umbilical cords still attached to her dead mother has been found in the rubbles of the earthquake in Syria, reports emerged on Wednesday. She had survived more than 24 hours after the earthquake hit the Syrian town near the Turkish border.

Her mother apparently gave birth while trapped under the debris reports said on Wednesday. The infant’s umbilical chord was still attached to her mother, who was discovered dead and buried under the wreckage.

Online videos showed rescuers hoisting the baby who was choking on dust to safety as they traversed the rubble of structures that were destroyed by the severe earthquake.

Ramadan Sleiman, a relative, told the Associated Press that the newborn was the only member of her family to survive the building collapse on Monday in the small village of Jinderis, close to the Turkish border.

The northwest Syrian rebel-held enclave of Jinderis was severely damaged by the earthquake, with numerous structures being demolished.

The baby is being kept in an incubator after a female neighbor cut the cord and hurried her to a children’s hospital in the adjacent town of Afrin, according to the treating doctor, Dr. Hani Maarouf. Although the infant’s body temperature had dropped and she had bruises, including a significant one on her back, her condition is stable

Given how much her temperature had dropped, Dr. Maarouf stated that he believed the infant had been born around three hours prior to being discovered.

Thousands of babies were miraculously saved across Turkey and Syria by overworked emergency personnel as they battled subzero temperatures, relentless rain, and power shortages.

Before the story of the newborn girl with umbilical cord still attached to her dead mother, earlier on Monday night in Jinderis, a young child was miraculously recovered alive from the rubble of a fallen building brought down by the earthquake. A rescuer was seen in a video from the White Helmets, a civil defense organization, searching among twisted metal and broken concrete until the young girl, Nour, emerged.

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