Baby Christ with his Cameroonian mother on board the Aquarius. Baby Christ was born on the back of a crowded wooden boat on July 11, shortly before being rescued by the Aquarius. By the time MSF teams found them, mother and baby were still attached by umbilical cord and so they were promptly transferred onto the Aquarius and into the clinic, where the MSF Midwife Alice Gautreau and Doctor Craig Spencer helped to complete the delivery of the baby.
“In the clinic, we first separated mother and baby by cutting the umbilical cord.  Mum then needed a few stitches but other than that everything else went really well. Baby Christ weighs 7 pounds 10 ounces and against all odds, both mother and baby are doing really well,” she said.  
On July 11 2017, the Aquarius team rescued 630 people from two wooden boats and three rubber boats in distress, and took on board a further 230 people from Iuventa, the rescue boat of the NGO Jugend Rettet. Included in the 860 people on board are 9 pregnant women, 172 minors and newborn baby Christ. All 860 people were disembarked in Brindisi on July 14.