a continuation from last week in regards to lectures.... the postpartum time and then into some other things such as breastfeeding, spotting signs of a respiratory infection and what to do for a child thats had diarrhea. it was sad to learn how many infant deaths there are because of dehydration. in fact its the second leading killer among infants. the first is respiratory illness’s. so sad because theres mostly always preventable.
we also had a field trip to the hospital this past friday! so much fun! we learnt resuscitation of infants and had a tour of the facilities. including the labour ward, the operating ‘theatre’ (room, theatre is what they refer to it here and on outreach), the nursery and the postpartum ward. it was a privately run hospital and very nice, nothing compared to what we’ll see on outreach! but it was neat to see and defiantly got us more excited to be leaving in two weeks. we even got to see a placenta! which i’m sure to many sounds disgusting, but for us who have been learning about these and much more it was nice to finally get to see ‘a real live one’ haha! it was pretty neat to see the ‘home’ of a baby! and we were even given gloves and got to touch it!
this week has been full, with the deadline of outreach fee’s creeping in on us every spare moment we’ve had has been devoted to prayer. we’ve seen huge progress and many people have been provided for, as of friday however our school as a whole still needed just over 30,000.00AUD. we’ve seen God move, we know he is bigger than anything we can imagine, so we wait on him to see what he’s gonna do!
so yup that has been the week, we’ve started a little more with some outreach prep which has been informative as well as a little overwhelming. crazy to think, i will live in Africa for six months. i’m excited, just not sure what to expect.
till next week
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