baby hatch

Baby hatches have existed in one form or another for centuries.

"Boy, when those babies hatch, it's always fun to watch.

Hungary - Around a dozen baby hatches, usually run by hospitals.

Gharials are devoted mothers, before and after their babies hatch.

The babies hatch after 45 - 55 days.

As of December 2011, there are 47 baby hatches in the country, mostly in major cities.

Since 2011 10 baby hatches or so-called baby boxes has come into use in Russia.

Every day I looked to see if the babies hatched out, and I was the first one to find them.

Used in this manner, lockers serve as an unofficial sort of baby hatch, often with disastrous results.

Many types of fish carry their eggs in their mouths until the babies hatch, and can care for themselves.

A baby hatch (also called foundling wheel) is a system where parents can leave infants for adoption anonymously.

Baby hatches are usually installed at hospitals.

In Austria, the law treats babies found in baby hatches as foundlings.

In Germany, the baby hatch system only just borders on the legal; normally a mother who abandons her child is committing a criminal act.

Between December 2004, when the first baby hatch was opened, and April 2004 thirty babies have been left behind.

The babies hatch inside the female.

German law considers babies left in the baby hatch as if they have been left in the charge of a third party.

Baby hatches are installed in hospitals and run by the wardship and guardianship authority.

List of all baby hatches in Germany (in German)

The male aids in the babies hatching by shaking his tail, and rubbing it against seaweed and rocks.

Reasons for using baby hatches

Slovakia - There are sixteen baby hatches in fifteen cities across Slovakia.

However, left behind on the Today set, the egg turns out to be a Sleestak egg as a baby hatches from it.

In some areas baby hatches, safe places for a mother to anonymously leave an infant, are offered, in part to reduce the rate of infanticide.

State Secretary for Health Clémence Ross suggested that baby hatches were illegal.