Mother of Baby found alone in Elanora now with Police

The mother of a baby girl found at Elanora on her own this afternoon has been located.

Police are determining the circumstances of the incident.

The one-year-old girl was found around 3.30 today severely dehydrated and eating leaves outside a Gold Coast church.

Members of the public who found the baby in Applecross Way at Elanora made an urgent triple-zero call to emergency services and paramedics took the girl, who also has a cut above her eye, to the Gold Coast University Hospital in a serious but stable condition.