母亲节里女婴被遗弃在DANDENONG医院门口.

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Police have appealed for a Melbourne mother to come forward after her newborn baby was discovered abandoned outside a suburban hospital.

The baby girl was found wrapped in towels and placed in a cardboard box outside Dandenong Hospital as Mother's Day dawned today.

A nurse retrieved the crying newborn from outside a security door about 6am (AEST) as temperatures dipped to eight degrees Celsius.

The hospital's head of paediatrics, Cathy McAdam, said it was unknown how long the baby had been outside but she was "blue and cold" and suffering from hypothermia when she was found.

"It was cold but it was breathing by itself and our doctors who were on site attended to the baby immediately and brought it round to the special care nursery where we were able to warm the baby up," she told reporters.

Victoria Police Sergeant Gerard Vries said officers had "no idea" who had dumped the baby at the hospital.

Police believed it was a local person but a lack of security footage gave officers few leads, he said.

Sgt Vries appealed for the mother to identify herself.

"We're concerned for her emotional health ... and we're also concerned about her physical health because she's given birth to a baby," he said.

Sgt Vries said police had not considered pressing charges against the mother.

"Our concern is for her welfare, that's what we're concerned about," he said.

Dr McAdam said baby Catherine, as she has since been named by hospital staff, weighed 2.94 kilograms when found and looked to be a full-term baby.

The newborn was experiencing breathing difficulties but was "a healthy, active, normal little baby", she said.

"I think the mother must be very unwell or desperate for help to leave the baby at any time, whether it's Mother's Day or any other day," she said.

"I hope that she will come forward. She has a beautiful baby there who obviously needs her."

做孽啊.

五妹妹

sigh,真是可憐啊
一出生就要被母親拋棄
所以真的是還沒ready時
不要亂亂來