# Newborn Shocks Hospital Staff As She “Walks” Just Minutes After Birth

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- Published: 2017-05-30T17:00:12+10:00
- Author: Clare Whitfield

## _A newborn girl has shocked medical staff at a maternity hospital in Brazil after she appeared to be walking just minutes after she was born._

Hospital workers were trying to give the baby girl a bath�for the very first time
when she decided to literally “walk” away.

In the[ video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AGZ5x1O6Tc)�uploaded by [Julia Gonçalves](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJCPhJitHWJ-DIS8r-m9hdw)
�on YouTube, a nurse�cradles the baby across her chest with one arm when�the miracle
baby appears to walk on her own.

The nurse, dressed in surgical robes with a clinical mask over her mouth, cries 
out in Portuguese in amazement: “Oh my gosh, the girl is walking. Good gracious!”

Another person then said, “Wait let me film this,” before�shouting for another colleague
called Ju to come to witness the incredible moment.

The midwife in the video explains that she has been trying to give the baby a bath
but the child just wants to get up and walk. She then�points with one hand to where
she first tried to lay her�down to give her her very first bath. “She has walked
from here to here,” she says pointing across the distance the newborn has already
covered.

The video was also uploaded to�[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/arlete.arantes.94/videos/vb.100012266440341/336828263402719/?type=2&theater)
�by Arlete Arantes where it gained�more than 83�million views and 1.8 million shares.

Although�details on where exactly the incident took place or the baby’s identity
is limited, the insignia on the midwife’s robes suggest she works at a Santa Cruz
Hospital, in a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil.

It generally takes up to 12 months for babies to learn to walk, and that usually
comes after they have achieved and passed other major milestones in their development
such as sitting up and crawling.

Source:�[Dailymail.co.uk](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4551536/Newborn-baby-WALKS-just-minutes-leaving-womb.html)

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