Pictures!

Okay, a quick update on last night~  Long story short, we had a lady come in to deliver her TENTH baby!  Her lay midwife called around midnight to say they wanted to come in, and they arrived about 45 minutes later... then delivered around 2:00 am.  Mom and baby were doing pretty well (especially considering the amount of meconium that was present!).  Unfortunately, this morning the baby was breathing way too hard for our comfort, and we flew him in to the national hospital in Quiché~  Please pray for this little boy!!  His mom is still doing well, but we've had kind of hit-or-miss care at the national hospital so must just remain hopeful and prayerful.  We are grateful that she was brought in, though, as it would be quite unlikely that this baby would have survived without medical attention.

As promised last night, though, here are a few pics I was finally able to download...

The "obligatory" first-uterus-of-the-trip selfie... Chris, Adele, and me...

Chris and Adele operating!

A bad place to leave the clinic key... (inside the locked clinic!  Oops.)  Note the pathology specimens in background waiting to be taken up to the basket that goes in to The City each week to be read...)

Chris and Adele doing what they do best again!

Adele operating "solo" (OK, with Chris kind of hiding so it looks like she is solo in the picture...  Sometimes we cheat a little for residents and students who would otherwise never have pictures of themselves operating ;-))

Me and Chris with one of our "paychecks" for the week-- two really nice papayas from a sweet infertile couple that I've been trying to help for a while now... wish them luck!  Sweet Eva is the lady's name.

This morning's "return on investment" from yesterday's clinic... Please pray for this little boy (as yet nameless; they usually don't choose a name until sometime between 15 and 40 days of life), as he actually became quite sick after this picture.

Leslie and Katie Ann, taking care of this sweet baby in the middle of the night!  We brought Katie Ann some "honorary Doula (birth support person)" scrubs after Jess's awesome delivery and her amazing help... just didn't know she would be using them so quickly!

Sweet momma totally tuckered out after her delivery...

Mommy giving her first "liquid gold" milk to the baby!

From later this morning, when Shea was helping to support the baby's breathing with a CPAP machine... still praying this will have a sustained effect!