Sergeant Tomasz Grądzki has been flooded with praise after springing into action when he came across the 11-day-old baby struggling to breathe.
City guards in Warsaw were called to the area in the city’s Wawer district after a woman going for a walk spotted the adorable kit moving in a clump of grass.
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.”
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.
The number of newborn Polish children dropped from 300,000 in 2021 to 290,000 in 2022, according to a new report published in the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (DGP) newspaper on Thursday.
Born after 26 weeks and weighing a mere 390 grams, the baby named Marta was discharged to her delighted parents last week weighing a healthy 2.5kg.
Warsaw-based Professor Marzena Dębska, who has carried out over 140 operations on babies in the womb diagnosed with complex heart defects, received the 2022 Research “for her inspiring work on fetal cardiac interventions” from the Holm Schneider Foundation for Prenatal Therapy in Erlangen, Germany.
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.
Produced by Sygnis SA, the lifesaving 1:1 model of the new-born’s skull followed an urgent request for help from surgeons at the Upper Silesian Centre of Child Health and doctors at the e-Nable Polska Foundation.
The birth rate in Poland has crashed from 700,000 babies born annually to around 350,000.
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