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Ok so think I woke myself up a few times last night with me snoring!! Whoops - how lady like is that!!
It was a misty morning and everything was really wet after all the rain last night. A much colder morning too. I spent the first half of the morning in the baby room. They are all ten times cuter than they were yesterday :) When I arrived there was still 3 of them to bath and change their beds, then they all got fed. It was so cute giving them baths!!
This morning they put the babies into the carry seats and placed the bottle in their mouth and propped it up with teddies. Therefore the babies don't even get human contact while their feeding, as their straight back into their cots when they have finished. Hope and Angel are 7 and 8 weeks old and are too small to do this so I got to feed them!
Today one of the mammas is a trained nurse so I spoke to her about their conditions etc, Angel had bloods taken aged 6 weeks and is due to get her results on Monday to whether or not she is HIV positive or not. She is being treated as if she is, as the possibility is quite high but everyone is praying she's negative.
I stayed in the baby room all day, which probably wasn't the best idea, as started getting broody haha! Could take them all home! Apparently I'm a natural :) Bottle fed them all lunch then Tony and Hosea got some soup cos they're both 7 and half months!
Managed to get a few good photos today, and today we have asked the owner Joan for a wish list of things that would help at the orphanage. Hopefully by the end of the week we'll be able to get them baby wipes etc as they haven't had wipes for months!
Lavinia, Johanna and I were invited to go to two of the mammas house that were on nightshift at His Image. After project they met us and we all walked together to their 'house'. They were both 22 and it was a shed in a steading on a farm they called their house. It was less than half the size (actually more like a quarter) of our small sitting room at home, only had space for one kind of bed (smaller than a single bed) and a sofa. It was really cosy and clean inside, they paid 1500 Kenyan shilling per month, which is equivalent to £10 and had a communal kitchen and toilet with their neighbours. They showed us their photo albums, and had juice and a biscuit. It was a lovely afternoon and we've been invited back on Thursday so I can see them both before I leave.
The sun never came out today, but we still walked back to Brackenhurst in time for a shower before tea.
Film o'clock was Out of Africa tonight. It was set half an hour along the road from where we stay, it was an old film and lasted 3 hours!! If it was half the length it would have been a lovely film!
4 sleeps left before I leave :( would love to spend another 2 weeks working here!
Night night xxx
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