I’m sitting here crying. Today midwife Carmelle called us crying because she went to the Haiti hospital and took pictures of this. These women and their newborn babies are sleeping outside, on the ground with nothing more than cardboard mats because they...
Day Seven In Haiti Part One: Carrie, Carmelle and I walk into Shada and a little boy recognizes me and yells and runs to me to give me a welcoming hug. It is Anderson! He is the little boy who was covered in staph and scabies in January. His skin is clear and...
Day Five in Haiti:I turn my body away from the pushing crowd and face the rusty tin wall to cry. The lump grows in my throat and I want to sob, but I fight it, turn around and fill the last three medicine cups with our treatment for scabies and staph: neem oil,...
Day six in haiti:The day started with two mom’s laboring in the birth room and 40 women holding their babies and singing together in beautiful morning song at MamaBaby Haiti. We created a circle of moms and dads with babies three months and younger, pulling them...
Day Four in Haiti:Due to gas shortages we walked EVERYWHERE. I feel like I walked 10 miles today. This is what we did: Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – and I bore my testimony in Haitian Kreyol to the congregation, which I am sure was...
