{"id":534667,"date":"2026-03-12T03:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T03:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:27:09","slug":"newborn-baby-found-in-backyard-in-melbournes-north-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534667\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn baby found in backyard in Melbourne&#8217;s north-west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeffn investigation is underway after a newborn baby was found in a backyard in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne&#039;s\">Melbourne&#8217;s<\/a> north-west.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the public reported finding the baby\ufeff in the yard of their home in Keilor Downs shortly before 8am today, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics arrived at the scene, before the baby and a woman at a nearby address were taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/422ee8b0-075c-4efc-b90b-c13ef86fa087.png\"   alt=\"Baby found Keilor Downs\"\/>A member of the public reported finding the baby\ufeff in the backyard of their home in Keilor Downs. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>They both re\ufeffmain at Western Health Sunshine in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police are now investigating \ufeffthe incident.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is in need of support contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue. In the event of an emergency dial Triple Zero (000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeffn investigation is underway after a newborn baby was found in a backyard in Melbourne&#8217;s north-west. A member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-534667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}