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Woman charged after injured baby found outside home

A woman has been charged with causing serious injuries to a newborn baby found in Melbourne. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

A woman has been charged after a newborn baby was found seriously injured outside a Melbourne home.

The boy was discovered outside a Dandenong North address, in Melbourne's southeast, about 2.40am on August 30.

The newborn was initially taken to hospital in a critical condition.

Police on Thursday said the baby remained in hospital with "serious but non-life-threatening injuries". 

A 25-year-old woman was taken from the scene, on Gladstone Road, to hospital under police guard.

She remains in hospital and has since been charged with conduct endangering life and recklessly cause injury.

She has been released on bail and will appear before Dandenong Magistrates Court on 5 December.

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