Surprise Delivery 18/02/10
In olongapo its been a busy week. We had a minor drama at the end of last week. A mother (whose 2 children already are under our care) came to us and said she was 39 weeks pregnant and ready to deliver any day. The problem is she has to walk from their mountain home to the nearest town. That’s a 3 hours hike and this is baby number 10 so there is no way she would have made it on time. So i offered to bring her to our local hospital and have her induced that day so her and the baby wouldn’t be in danger. Apparently with baby number 10 the womb often ruptures.. So, we set off and by that night she was in labor. By the next morning she was still only 3 cm’s. I had been there all night but had to leave to go to manila 30mins later so as i left i passed by her mother in law to update her on the mums progress.. She asked me if the baby had survived. I was slightly surprised and asked what she meant. She went on to explain that the baby actually wasn’t due until May!! I couldn’t believe it. It was too late to do anything. We’d already induced labor!
A few hours later little baby boy was born. He was small and thin, weighing only 1.5kilos and looking like a 30/31 week baby. We couldn’t believe it and cant understand why she did that but we are thankful that wee baby James was able to breathe alone and didn’t need to be ventilated. He is still in the incubator now so can you pray that he will get stronger and that we will know what to do with him. The mum and dad can’t afford to feed him and honestly they have enough problems feeding the ones they have! We need the wisdom of God to know where James should grow up.. Right people, right place.. (yes by the way, we helped her to be ligated now.. no more babies!)
The Big Day 23/02/10
Today’s the big day… its the first time that the Baguio team will have the opportunity to do evangelism at Benguet General Hospital. The Director there is so kind and accommodating. We have borrowed ’supermanny’ the mascot from our Olongapo team and also some puppets. We really need to get our own up here but its expensive.
Our plan today is to sing, dance and have wonderful puppet shows. Jenny will be heading it up today and although we’re all a little nervous we are more excited! Isn’t it great to get to share the gospel and our Hope with kids who are suffering so much. Our prayer is that the parents and children will feel Him today and His care for them…
I’ll let you know later how it went!