Well, it finally happened. Our new nursery is finally open! Thank you to all of you who donated funds to make this a reality. We went from a tiny closet for our premature and sick infants to a new, warm, welcoming and much larger Newborn Unit. I have already noticed that the moms are spending more time with their babies and the nurses are present much more often. We had a dedication ceremony to dedicate the new space to the Lord and give each of the current infants, and those to come, to Him. It was wonderful and so great to see the looks on the mom's faces when they saw where their babies were going to be cared for.
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| Our previous closet of a nursery |
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| Incubators in the new nursery with chairs for each mother |
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| So much space! |
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| Our dedication service |
We've already had a graduate of our new nursery. Abel was born 14 weeks prematurely by emergency C-section because his mother was hemorrhaging from placenta previa (where the placenta is covering the cervix). I'd had her on bedrest in the hospital because of intermittent bleeding, but that night was different. By the time I got there, her bed was covered in blood. I sadly told his mom that we would do what we could, but being only 26 weeks, his chances of survival here were very low. As I pulled him out, all I could think about was how small he was - until he started screaming! At 850 grams, he was the smallest baby I'd seen born here and cry, much less survive. Each day, we prayed for him, and he outdid all of our expectations. After less than 2 months, he was discharged. Today, mom took him to Kijabe Hospital (a large mission hospital here in Kenya) for repair of a minor heart defect. We praise God for our little miracle baby!
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| Abel the day after he was born. As you can see, he was barely bigger than my hand. |
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| Dr. Kyle Jones, Tekla, little Abel, and me last week |
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