Suddenly Baby Max got very sick...

We always weigh all the children on Sundays, and yesterday was a happy day. We have a room now with 7 small babies, some premature, but they are all underweight and very vulnerable. We keep the door closed and some babies are fed there, they do not come out, it is warm and safe there.

Yesterday, all the babies had gained!  Some had gained 200 grams, others 400 grams! The little Lazaro, who I am carrying here, gained 250 grams!! And mini Max, I wrote about him in an earlier blog, gained 200 grams! They are drinking good and there is reason to rejoice, until today....

We even got a new baby yesterday, this is baby Richard, he is not even 1 day old, he was born at home at10 pm, saturday evening. The mother got complications, the placenta didn't come out, so they brought her in the night to the hospital in Soroti. But she has lost too much blood and shortly after the arrival in the hospital, she passed away.... A beautiful baby boy was brought to Amecet, if we could just help to care for him for some months..... We have now 14 small babies, all younger than 10 weeks. One room with 7 mini babies and one room with 7 ''bigger'' babies. Richard got the last bed in the room with the bigger babies, because his weight was 2.7 kg.

As I wrote that we were happy yesterday, until today...

Deborah was called by one of the staff, because Max was breathing strange. She went directly to see him and felt that she should take him to the Doctor. There he was examined and he was really in distress, he was given IV medication and we took the NG tube out, so he could breath better. We lay him now in our medical room and put him on IV fluids and on oxygen. He seems to be a bit better...

Esther is on night duty, and she has medical skills, she will look after him well. But it is scary sometimes, how suddenly the situation will change. Max was a premature baby, so his lungs were not yet ready for breathing and that makes him so vulnerable. Please pray for little Max , that he may pull through.....



 PS. I just called Esther (on the picture above). He is much better, he is breathing better and he even drank 40 ml. milk by mouth.