Doctors are calling a “miracle” a maintenance worker’s discovery of a baby in a trash dumpster.

Carlos Michel said that he thought he was hearing the sound of an animal dying in a dumpster at the Reverse at Windmill Lakes apartment complex.  He decided to investigate and discovered a newborn boy, with the umbilical cord still attached, inside a plastic garbage bag.

Michel immediately checked for breath sounds and found the child was still alive.  He placed him inside his heated truck and warmed the boy until he began to react like a normal baby.  He kept him safe until emergency personnel arrived on the scene.

Doctors say he saved the child’s life.

Police investigators found a 16-year-old woman in a nearby apartment who admitted bagging up the baby and throwing it in the dumpster.  Police gave no details why the teen abandoned her baby in that manner but said she was taken to a local hospital.

Child Protective Services will care for the baby.  The Harris County District Attorney’s office has not said if they will be filing charges against the mother.