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Hospital’s delightful ‘tree of life’ celebrates every new baby birth with a named leaf

Nicknamed ‘the tree of life’, branches on the mural have been embellished with foil leaves bearing the name of a newly-born child. Szpital Zdroje Szczecin

Beata Szmidt, a midwife working at the hospital, said: “Each mother, after the birth of a child, receives a leaf with the name and date of birth of her child. Together with her partner, she can then place the leaf on a branch.”

Making movies: catching up with TFN’s Dagmara Leszkowicz

In this episode of The Debrief, we hear about plans to make a film based on the life of the Midwife of Auschwitz, Stanisława Leszczyńska.

Love is in the air: Couple give ‘miracle’ birth to quintuplets

The five babies were welcomed into the world at the city's University Hospital on Sunday through a caesarean section in the 28th week of pregnancy.

‘Some kind of power came over me’: Hero security guard delivers baby while driving home from work

Mateusz Białkowski had finished his nightshift when a distressed man leapt out in front of his car. Learning that the man’s wife was pregnant, Białkowski drove to his house where he set about successfully delivering the baby girl.

Birth rate crashes in Poland

The birth rate in Poland has crashed from 700,000 babies born annually to around 350,000.

Births hit record low during pandemic

Poland's January birthrate fell to its lowest point in over ten years, a leading daily newspaper reported on Thursday.

The Polish midwife who stood up for life amid the horror of Auschwitz

Forced to witness some of the most horrific scenes on earth, surrounded by death and the slaughter of infants, which she was also ordered to carry out, one woman quietly carried out her duty and defended the value of life against a culture of death. Her remarkable story is a testament to hope and courage in the darkest of circumstances.

Coronavirus mum-in-a-coma gives birth to baby girl

The baby named Amelka was delivered via caesarean section two weeks ago at the University Clinical Hospital in Wroclaw where the mother, who was unaware she had given birth, is now said to be recovering.

PM hands parents of Polish sextuplets keys to new car

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday morning visited the parents of Polish sextuplets at the University Hospital in Krakow, south Poland, and gave them the keys to a new nine-seater Volkswagen Transporter car.

‘We’ll give them all the love in the word’ says delighted dad of sextuplets but says he fears for the babies’ lives

The births took both doctors and parents by surprise as everyone was expecting five babies. Doctors say they are keeping the six new-borns under close observation and stress that they are so far doing well.

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An incredible 3D reconstruction has revealed how the face of a medieval Polish man with dwarfism once looked.

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