SMFH! MOM DUMPS HER BABY IN THE TRASH & GOES HOME TO TAKE A NAP!

A Queens woman dumped her newborn baby in a hospital trash can after she gave birth Tuesday - and was busted napping in her home just two hours later, sources said.

Dawa Lama, 23, put the infant in a trash bin inside the emergency room bathroom of Elmhurst Hospital Center, where she gave birth to the child shortly before 2:30 p.m., the sources said.

"She never told me. I didn't know," Lama's mother, Seri Sherpa, told the Daily News. "She said, 'I'm getting fat.' I said, 'Tell me the truth. Do we have to go to the hospital? She said, 'No, everything's all right."

Lama, a beautician school student, bolted from the hospital and left the child clinging to life, in critical condition.

Police found the woman sleeping inside her 65th St. home in Woodside about 5:20 p.m., sources said.

She was taken into custody, but it was not immediately clear what charges she may face.

Under New York State law, mothers can leave a baby within five days of its birth at any city hospital or fire house with no questions asked.

Sherpa, who moved here with her daughter from Nepal four years ago, said Lama came home Tuesday afternoon, ate a plate of rice and dahl, Indian lentil soup, and went to bed.

"Then the police came," the mother said. "Thank God, the baby is alive."

Sherpa said she was going to Elmhurst Tuesday night to try to see the baby.

Lama's boyfriend, Bishnu Gurung, 28, a restaurant worker, also denied knowing she was pregnant.

"I didn't know she was carrying a baby," Gurung told The News. "I always asked her, 'Your belly is growing. Is there something I should know?'

"If that's my baby, I'm going to take care of it," he said.

In February, a 14-year-old Brooklyn girl who hid her pregnancy from her mother triggered an NYPD probe after a dead newborn was found in her bedroom.

A doctor at Coney Island Hospital determined she had recently gave birth after the teen walked in with her mother because she complained of heavy bleeding.

The doctor called police, who later found a dead baby boy in a plastic bag behind the teen's bed.

That investigation is still ongoing.



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