Dr. Marc-Antoine Pigeon was at the tail end of a busy overnight shift when he learned paramedics were on their way with a newborn who had been found unresponsive at a bus shelter early Monday morning in Longueuil, Que.

The mood immediately changed, said the emergency physician at Charles-Le Moyne hospital.

"All the tiredness and the bad feelings from the night that were accumulated and the dream of our beds just went away," he said.

Paramedics were attempting to resuscitate the newborn when the baby was rushed into the hospital — right as Dr. Camille Tétreault was preparing for her day shift.

She was still in leggings when she joined the team of at least 15 people trying to revive the baby. The newborn was still attached to the placenta, naked and very cold, when paramedics found the

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