text: NEW YORK, N.Y. - A child’s winter coat may have saved her life. 14-month-old Xania Samuels fell from the window of a fifth-floor New York City apartment on Monday. 
   
   Samuels’ father said the child insisted on wearing her favorite pink winter coat on the hottest day of the year. The coat was so heavily cushioned it might have saved her life, according to the family. 
   
   “It just may have broken her fall, because she is so little, just a baby,” according to her father, who did not want his name revealed. 
   
   How could this have happened? 
   
   The child’s father said he was giving the girl’s twin brother a bath and the child’s mother was at a Laundromat during the time. 
   
   The toddler suffered head trauma and is in critical condition, but doctors are hopeful she will survive. 
   
   The child’s mother said there were no window guards in the apartment and complaints to the landlord were ignored, as told to the New York Post. 
   
   
   
   ||||| A 14-month-old girl tumbled out a fifth-story window at her family’s Bronx apartment today — but is miraculously expected to survive, authorities and neighbors said. 
   
   There are no window guards on any of the six-floor building’s upper floors, sources said. Window guards are required by law in apartments were young children live. 
   
   The baby, Xania Samuels, was rushed to Jacobi Hospital with head trauma after her near-death drop from the building at 3230 Cruger Ave. in Bronxwood. She was listed in critical condition as of 4:30 p.m. 
   
   The plunge, which cops say was an accident, occurred at 11:29 am. 
   
   According to a first responder, no one realized that the tot had fallen out the window until at least 7 minutes after the incident. The father was giving the girl’s twin brother a bath at the time of the fall, cops said. The babies’ mother was at a Laundromat. Neither parent was charged with any crimes. 
   
   Willis Sands, a 57-year-old emergency medical technician from Long Island, said he stumbled upon the baby “laying lifelessly” on a bloody cement pavement while dropping off some laundry nearby. 
   
   He initially thought the infant was a “doll” but soon after “screamed for a mother, and no one came.” 
   
   Sands said he turned the girl on her side to maintain her airwaves and called 9-11. Within five minutes, emergency assistance arrived. Two minutes later, after a fire truck came by, the father stuck his head out the window and screamed “Oh my God! Oh my God!” the EMT added. 
   
   “That’s when I realized someone had fallen out a window,” Sands said. 
   
   “[The father] was in shock,” said Eric Brown, who lives on the sixth floor, one flight above the baby and her family. 
   
   Brown said she ran outside and saw the baby’s limp body on a bloody pavement “twisted up with blood coming from her head.” 
   
   Other neighbors said she wearing a diaper on, one slipper and wrapped up in a pink blanket. ” I have five children of my own, so it made sick seeing her like that,” he said. 
   
   Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli
target: – A 14-month-old girl fell out the fifth-story window of her family’s Bronx apartment yesterday, and her father didn’t realize it until at least seven minutes later—but miraculously, doctors are hopeful the tot will survive. There are no window guards in the apartment where Xania Samuels lives, and at the time of her plunge, her father was bathing her twin brother and her mother was at a Laundromat. She was found “laying lifelessly” on the ground underneath the apartment by a passing EMT, the New York Post reports. He first thought Samuels, surrounded by blood, was a doll but quickly called 911. Her father looked out the window soon after and discovered what had happened. The infant was rushed to the hospital with head trauma and was in critical condition as of yesterday afternoon. Fox News reports that her father believes a winter coat may have saved his daughter’s life: She insisted on wearing the heavily cushioned pink coat, her favorite, even though it was the hottest day of the year. (Click to read the tragic story of a model who died after plunging through a hotel window Saturday.)