Fronchies love their babies.Babies fall out of windows. It happens. It's not good. I'm going to tell you the story of a Parisian baby who fell out a window, seven stories down, and bounced off an awning.

Let me front-load this article with the information that this baby is fine, not dead, and completely unhurt, because there is nothing I hate more than being blindsided with details of a maimed or murdered infant.
 
Now the magic of the story is what happened next ... after the awning bounce.

would you trade this in for a cardboard box? A pediatrician who went to help after the earthquake in Haiti found himself desperate to save a preemie. So he made an incubator out of a cardboard box.

It was a dark and stormy night (really!), and Dr. Dennis Rosen had six women in active labor. One was a teenager who hadn’t even realized she was pregnant, and her teeny baby boy weighed 2 pounds 3 ounces at about 32 weeks gestation.

Rosen said: “Once the baby was born we dried and swaddled him and started looking for a place where he could be cared for until he was stable enough to be sent home.”

No incubators were to be found, at that hospital or any other. Another doc suggested he “MacGyver” himself an incubator. So he did.

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