Story highlights Female newborn who was rescued from a toilet is now in stable condition.

There are more than 100,000 abandoned children in China.

Most abandoned babies suffer a range of disabilities or medical conditions like Down syndrome, cerebral palsy or cleft lip.

Beijing (CNN) Police are searching for the mother of a newborn baby girl found wedged face-down in a Beijing toilet on Sunday.

Residents heard cries from a public toilet block and notified police, according to the Beijing Times.

"Her head was upside down and her body was falling into the drain. We could only vaguely see her feet from the side," Qian Feng, the local police chief told the paper.

Qian said initially police decided to dismantle the toilet as the drain structure was unclear, but that would take too long.

An image supplied by Beijing Tianqiao Police shows an officer holding the baby at the toilet on August 2, 2015.

"She just kept crying. I looked again, and thought we should try to pull her out even if the possibility might be slim."