Bundle of joy: Baby Chloe smiles a week after she was found dumped in a plastic bag in Houston
Paramedics took the young girl, who still had about three inches of umbilical court attacked to her stomach, to Texas Children's Hospital, where she was listed as in good condition.
'She was very healthy… didn't have a fever,' Estella Olguin with the Child Protective Services told KHOU. 'Fortunately, she did not suffer from being exposed to the elements that evening.'
Doctors believe the young girl was dumped just hours after she was born. They also think she was born slightly premature at 35 weeks gestation.
CPS is now looking for the girl's mother or father; Olguin said they do not have to claim the baby but that a discussion with them would be useful to identify Chloe's family's medical history.
Abandoned: Child Protective Services is now looking for her parents so they know her medical history
Content: The newborn has been placed in foster care and a judge will decide her future next week
'So the person who is adopting this baby can have some more genetic family medical background on the baby to be able to raise her with more knowledge or information about her,' Olguin said.
Chloe will be cared for in a foster home as CPS continues the search. A hearing will be held on her behalf on March 4, and a judge will decide her fate, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Her early tooth is a genetic trait and could be a clue to tracking down the family, doctors said.
Sgt Gordon Trott, of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, said an unnamed woman walking her pet at around 7pm came across a Walmart bag left near the fence surrounding the Stonegate Villas Apartments in the 11000 block of Grant Road in the Cypress section of Houston, according to the
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