7 incredible stories of infant survival

The heroes of this article are babies who suffered terrible trials immediately after birth: a shot in the chest and three days without food and drink; a fall from the eighth floor; a day spent in a wild animal's hole.

A newborn boy who was found in a sewer pipe

This shocking incident happened recently in China.

So far, the rescued person is called Newborn No. 59 - by the number of the medical incubator where he was placed. Every day, the Chinese bring diapers, baby clothes, powdered milk to the hospital – in general, everything that a baby may need. There is already a whole queue of those who want to adopt a little sufferer.

A girl born 21 weeks and six days after conception

Amilia was born 21 weeks and six days after conception. This is the smallest surviving premature baby in the world. It is enough to look at these doll legs in the doctor's fingers in the photo above to understand what a baby she was. Amilia's weight after birth was 284 grams, height - 25 cm. The skin was as soft as rice paper.

The only reason the doctors took up the "hopeless cause" of her rescue was her mother's desperate pleas.

Luz Milagros Veron (which translates as "wonderful light") is a strong one-year-old baby with an incredible birth story. She was born three months before the due date and showed no signs of life. The doctors considered her stillborn and sent her to the morgue. Now the girl is alive only because her parents insisted on showing them the body - to say goodbye. During the "farewell", after 12 hours spent in a closed coffin, the girl stirred and began to cry. She was cold as ice, but definitely alive. Since then, Luz Milagros has been growing by leaps and bounds and getting stronger every day.

This chilling story happened in 2006. Police found a newborn boy buried in an armadillo burrow on the outskirts of a small Brazilian city. The child lay in this hole for at least 24 hours. When the boy was found, he was still in the placenta, only the head was sticking out of the ground, around which a whole swarm of midges had gathered.

At first, the baby seemed dead to rescuers, but then it turned out that he was just fast asleep. As soon as the baby's mouth was freed from the earth that had clogged into it, he began to cry.

The police managed to find the child's mother. She turned out to be 40-year-old Ferreira Guimarres, the mother of four other children, the youngest of whom was five years old at the time.

A child who immediately after birth fell through the toilet onto the railway track

This case is rightly called a miracle – a newborn girl fell into a toilet hole on a train and survived. Pregnant Rinku Debi Ray was traveling with her husband and four-year-old son to Bihar (India), to her parents, where she planned to give birth to her second child.

An infant who survived a fall from the eighth floor

This child, like some others on our list, was clearly unlucky with his mother. What this woman had in her head is not known, only immediately after giving birth she dumped her son into the garbage chute. From the eighth floor.

Fortunately, the pile of garbage on which the baby landed turned out to be soft and he survived. From time to time, the accumulated garbage is pressed to make room - it's scary to think that this could happen soon after the poor kid was there. But then fate turned out to be on the side of the child — his crying was soon heard by a worker who called the police.

The boy was taken to the Brooklyn hospital, and now everything is fine with him.

A baby who survived a shot in the chest and three days without food and drink

The couple from Argentina were sure that there was very little left for this world, that soon, due to global warming, everyone would have a painful death. They considered murder to be the only way to save their children from such a "terrible fate". After that, Francisco Lotero and Miriam Coletti shot their two-year-old son in the back, their seven-month-old daughter in the chest, after which they shot themselves with a sense of accomplishment.

After opening the apartment, the law enforcement officers found the bodies of the parents and the boy. And the baby survived despite a shot through the chest and three days without food and drink. Surprisingly, as soon as she got into the hands of doctors, she went on the mend almost instantly, and soon was absolutely healthy.