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Births hit record low during pandemic

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

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.

Wrocław docs give Irish baby life-changing surgery

Six-month-old Olivia had been receiving treatment in Dublin but specialists were unable to help the toddler who suffered from problems caused by an overgrown oesophagus, the tube that connects the throat with the stomach.

Hero cops save life of baby found choking and ‘turning blue’ in supermarket car park

VIDEO: Quick-thinking Senior Sergeant Rafał Radecki and Sergeant Łukasz Płonka sprang into action after coming across a distraught couple clutching a young child and screaming that he was choking.  

Baby born on car-choked highway is safe and sound

The mother and her partner had been trying to get to the nearest hospital after she had gone into labour but a small accident had led to the traffic on the busy road snarling up, leaving them to handle the birth by themselves.

At Last! Proud mum gives birth to baby boy in ‘abnormal village’ where for a DECADE only girls were born

The birth of baby Bartek comes as a huge relief to the village which was catapulted into the glare of global media attention last year with advice flooding in on how to conceive a boy. Proud mum Anna said that the birth was a double miracle as last year she had to raise money for a serious operation without which it would have been impossible to have a successful pregnancy.

Rescuers risk lockdown to save lives of THIRTY baby seals

The young seals were picked up on the Baltic coast by Blue Patrols staffed by World Wildlife Foundation volunteers.

Monks working in war-torn African republic get life-saving equipment after pic of new-born baby fighting for life goes viral

TFN speaks with Brother Maciej, a man helping some of Africa’s poorest people, and the woman who came to his aid by raising thousands for vital medical equipment.

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.

Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
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Abandoned amphitheatre to be transformed into eco-friendly ‘honey garden’ for bees

Unique to Poland, and possibly the world, the 3 million PLN project in Poznań will see former seating areas replaced by flowerbeds specifically intended to attract bees, and will be further embellished by nectar-bearing trees, sculptures, viewing points, water cascades and subtle lighting purposefully designed so as not to interfere with their activities.

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  • PM sends condolences to families of mining accident victims
  • Polish PM advocates spirit of Solidarity on Russian radio portal
  • Two miners killed after underground accident
  • Poles among MEPs calling for resolution on EU as "LGBTIQ freedom zone"
  • Poland boasts lowest unemployment in EU

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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