So much of the news from Haiti is bad, but here’s a little bit of good news from one of the field hospitals set up by Israeli medical teams: Haiti Earthquake: Mother Delivers Baby In Disaster Zone.

By Sunday afternoon, Moritz received the first few hopeful e-mail messages from Besser of the day. He and the 25-year-old woman were in an ambulance, en route to an Israeli field hospital that was set up in a Port-au-Prince soccer field near the airport on Friday evening. There they met the team of Israeli doctors, nurses and paramedics who had at their disposal a pharmacy, a children’s ward, a radiology department, an intensive care unit, an emergency room, two operating rooms, a surgical department, an internal department — and most importantly, a maternity ward.

Even better news followed — an ultrasound suggested that the baby was not only still alive, but oriented head-first, suggesting a likelihood of a normal, non-surgical delivery. And shortly after 6:00 p.m. on Sunday evening, the baby — a girl — was born. She was born premature, at only 32 weeks gestation, and weighed only 3 pounds, 15 ounces.

Even though the greatest threats to her health may now have passed, she still faces an uphill battle; aside from having experienced slow growth in the womb, she was born with a leg problem.

But doctors expect the leg problems to heal. The mother is doing well, despite having experienced preeclampsia, a leading killer of pregant women in Haiti, shortly before giving birth. And when Besser spoke with the doctor who delivered the baby, he said that the earthquake, ironically, likely saved the lives of both baby and mother.

“He said that had she delivered at home, both the mother and baby would have died,” Besser said.

Another baby was delivered at the same Israeli field hospital, which Besser said is “phenomenal” and has been up and running since Saturday. That grateful mother named her child Israel.