Little baby Simon....

Simon is two weeks old and he weighs 2,5 kg. It is a sad story, his mother died last week in the clinic next to our home from a heart problem. Simon was born in a clinic in the village on 8th of May. Everything went well, untill last week. They brought the mother to the clinic in Soroti, our neighbours, and the mother died there. Simon was brought to Amecet. He didn't drink very well, we had to feed him with a syringe, he was weak. Yesterday morning we were concerned about him, during the night he had started diarrhea and we brought him also to the clinic next to us. He was put on drip for some hours and we inserted a NG tube, so we could feed him better. We also did a malaria test and that came back positive. So we started to treat this little man for malaria. In the night I was called by our night duty staff, and Simon was deheydrated again, so Miranda and I put him back on IV drip. I took this picture this morning, he is still on IV drip, but he was sleeping peacefully. So sad that Simon has so many problems in his little life, we pray he will pick up, that the malaria treatment will work and that there are no other mayor problems with his health. He is so fragile and so beautiful (and so lief!!!).