My home for the past five months
Ate Dina is like an Auntie to all of the little kids, they love her
Ate Bhel and her beautiful babies
Taking a nap in the living room
Mariellie
Maybell
Ate Lornie
Roanne taking a nap
Roanne and Rainlyds, the midwives' little girls are really good friends and get along pretty well most of the time
Ate Grace and Mariellie, the midwives also take care of each other's children and help one another all of the time
Jorge, the mission's driver, a good friend and a big tease likes to take pictures of me while I'm eating. On this particular day it was french toast and fresh mangos
During one of my last weeks at the Birthing Home, a short term missions team came and painted one of our birthing rooms and our prenatal room. So that the women wouldn't be bothered by the smell, we did prenatals outside, in the lovely covered back yard area and a nice little separate room we call the family planning room
This asawa (husband) took off work for the whole day just so that he could come to this prenatal check up and hear the baby's heart beat
Freshly painted prenatal room
After prenatals
This was my second to last prenatal day
Feeling for the baby's head
Finding the baby's position
Listening to the heart beat
Measuring fundal height
This was my last thursday potluck with the birthing home and the Gustafsons. It was lovely to spend time with them but also sad to know I would be leaving soon
Ate Helen and a sleeping Maybell
Ate Becky (notice Aubrey climbing the maypole in the background)
Ate Grace, Ryle, and Ate Becky
Bhel and Mariellie
Bernadette, on my lap
Martin, the Birthing Home cat
Napping after lunch
Eating a fish head. I had never tried this kind of fish before, (I liked it but the body more so than the head) the midwives got really excited that I was eating it and rice with my fingers
Ate Becky and I
All of the lovely women and their sweet children who have poured into my life for the past five months!
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