DW BUREAU In a rare case, Pediatricians and neonatologists from Cloudnine Hospitals in Panchkula gave a new lease of life to one of the male babies of a Panchkula based couple who was suffering with trachea esophageal fistula, a congenital defect of food-pipe and windpipe at birth. A full term, male baby was born at 38 weeks of gestation and birth weight of 2.3 kg. However the baby had a blocked food pipe and part of it communicating with the wind pipe. He could not feed at birth. This condition, called Esophageal Atresia with Tracheoesophageal fistula (EA/TEF) is a rare and uncommon congenital anomaly. No abnormality on antenatal scans in mother were found and the baby cried immediately after birth but had excessive oral secretions with poor feeding. Born at 38 weeks via a normal vaginal delivery, the team of doctors at Cloudnine performed the corrective surgery by disconnecting the food pipe from the windpipe and creating a new complete food pipe. Baby at birth weighed 2.3 Kg and was shifted to Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in view of trachea esophageal fistula and esophageal atresia with poor feeding, drooling of saliva. Initially, doctors were not able to pass orogastric tube (these are small tubes placed either through the nose or the mouth and end with the tip in the stomach) in the food pipe leading to suspicion of abnormality of food pipe. An X - ray gave a complete diagnosis of fistulous connection between food pipe (esophagus) and breathing pipe (trachea). (editor@dailyworld.in)