CHICAGO (AP)—A 7-month-old baby found abandoned in an unheated apartment in a wet snowsuit with no shoes, socks or gloves will not need surgery to save her limbs, doctors said Wednesday.

“Medically, she’s fine,” a spokeswoman at Mount Sinai Medical Center said of Dominique Starns, who was suffering from hypothermia and frostbite when found early Tuesday in a West Side building.

A friend of the infant’s 18-year-old mother rescued the child after demanding that she tell him where the baby was kept. Wayne Brown said he found Dominique lying on frozen rags in the abandoned apartment.

Carolina Starns was charged with child abandonment. Prosecutors met Wednesday to decide whether to ask a judge to grant temporary custody to the Department of Children and Family Services, said Terry Levin, spokesman for the Cook County State’s Attorney.

It was the second time in as many weeks a young mother from the Chicago area has been charged with abandoning a child with no protection against a numbing Midwest winter.

“We average one (abandonment) a month and she pretty much fits the pattern,” Dave Schneidman, spokesman for the child-welfare agency, said of Carolina Starns. “Young, single, unemployed, facing another mouth to feed, a responsibility that must seem overwhelming.

“People should weep as much for the mother as for the child,” he added.

Spokeswoman Jan Sugar said doctors estimate Dominique had been abandoned at least 48 hours when found.

“Everybody here was cheered because she responded so well to warming and she will not lose any of her appendages,” Sugar said. “She was dehyrated, but she’s taking fluids well.”

She said several telephone callers already had offered to donate money to help the child and that at least one offered to become a foster parent.

Brown said Starns knocked on his door about midnight Monday.

“I said ‘Where is that baby?'” Brown said. “And she said, ‘Can you keep a secret?’ I said sure and she pointed over to the next block. I got my coat and she said, ‘Where you going?’ ‘To get your baby, girl. To get your baby.’

“She didn’t know if it was alive or dead.”

Last Thursday, 9-year-old Darlwin Carlisle had her feet amputated below the knee at Chicago’s Wyler Children’s Hospital because of complications from frostbite after she had been locked in an abandoned house in Gary, Ind.

She was reported in good condition Wednesday at Wyler, said spokesman Jeff Easton, while officials there tried to cope with a flood of mail and gifts that followed national news stories about her plight.