Oct. 23, Tuesday
Tuesday Jan worked in the office all day and I headed to the Rescue Center in Kajiado with my daughter Stephanie(she is a senior at Maxwell Adventist Academy here in Kenya). We were going to pick up baby Samwel Sarini who I had written about on Oct 18/19th. His mom was one of the students in 8th grade at the Rescue Center. While home on break she had gotten pregnant and given birth on Sept. 29th at a hospital near the school.
We had borrowed a car seat from one of the faculty at Maxwell Adv. Academy and had diapers, blankets, wipes, and a fresh bottle of formula for the ride home. When we got to the school the Head Mistress ushered us into the Matron's home and introduced us to baby Sammy's grandmother. She (the grandmother) was very quiet and did not appear to want to have much eye contact with us. She was also obviously pregnant herself too. The baby was wrapped very tightly in several blankets and when I gently unwrapped him he lay very still, not a movement. I thought he was dead and even the head mistress looked concerned, but after a little prodding he woke up and we breathed a sigh of relief. I cleaned him up and put a fresh diaper on him, and wrapped him in clean blankets. The mother was called in to talk to us and we wanted to check with her one more time if the plan we had come up with would work.
(We were taking him to a lay pastor's home in Narok District where the wife takes care of the girls during break that attend the Siana Springs Primary School - the plan was that she would take care of baby Sammy and during breaks at Kajiado, the mom would be taken down to stay with her son. Thus both would be in a safe environment and she would still be able to be a mom and bond with her son)
Everything was in order and we headed out. Both the grandmother and the mom seemed as though they were emotionless. There was hardly any expression of sorrow, I wondered if they even cared.
Because we would not be going to Siana Primary School until Friday - we had the privileged to keep baby Sammy in the home with us for three days.
He was the sweetest cutest thing ever!
Kim
We had borrowed a car seat from one of the faculty at Maxwell Adv. Academy and had diapers, blankets, wipes, and a fresh bottle of formula for the ride home. When we got to the school the Head Mistress ushered us into the Matron's home and introduced us to baby Sammy's grandmother. She (the grandmother) was very quiet and did not appear to want to have much eye contact with us. She was also obviously pregnant herself too. The baby was wrapped very tightly in several blankets and when I gently unwrapped him he lay very still, not a movement. I thought he was dead and even the head mistress looked concerned, but after a little prodding he woke up and we breathed a sigh of relief. I cleaned him up and put a fresh diaper on him, and wrapped him in clean blankets. The mother was called in to talk to us and we wanted to check with her one more time if the plan we had come up with would work.
(We were taking him to a lay pastor's home in Narok District where the wife takes care of the girls during break that attend the Siana Springs Primary School - the plan was that she would take care of baby Sammy and during breaks at Kajiado, the mom would be taken down to stay with her son. Thus both would be in a safe environment and she would still be able to be a mom and bond with her son)
Everything was in order and we headed out. Both the grandmother and the mom seemed as though they were emotionless. There was hardly any expression of sorrow, I wondered if they even cared.
Because we would not be going to Siana Primary School until Friday - we had the privileged to keep baby Sammy in the home with us for three days.
He was the sweetest cutest thing ever!
Kim
posted by Kim DeWitt | 3:42 AM
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