Here is a small excerpt from Mie’s blog before the beautiful images:

A bad day: Faustin gave up...

Faustin is only ten days old, he has a fever and has difficulty breathing. Diagnosis: pneumonia. The first day he is treated with antibiotics and he is still breastfed. The second day he gets fed breast milk through a tube in his stomach. He is cold and we try skin-to-skin and later a hot water bottle. Faustin gets quieter, doesn’t moan as much. We’ll just have to wait and see.. On the third day the little boy gets convulsions. There isn’t much you can do. He is dying while we are standing by and watching. For mum it is the fourth baby dying shortly after birth. Poor mum! Pity, sorry mum!
But practical matters have to be taken care of. She buys a reload card and Esther a nice midwife calles her relatives. We inquire at what time the bus leaves, the death certificate is signed. Mum takes Faustin with her on the bus...

I can picture this mum sitting there with her dead baby in her arms, on the bus. How does one cope with a thing like that?

A good day, the twins have made it!
Evansi and Elisha were born at 35 weeks and they are now 10 days old. Light weights , little birdies, but they are doing well! And so is mum! Every 3 hours she breastfeeds them. If they are too tired, she drains her breast milk.
They are in the incubator, a gift from a Dutch hospital. For a second I thought we were in trouble again. Short circuit because of a defective lamp. Luckily it didn’t take us long to motivate an electrician, and he even had the appropriate lamps!

Picture 1: the complete team
Picture 2: a proud mum is showing us her little girl that was saved during a previous mission
Picture 3: Eise explains the vacuum device to the local doctor
Picture 4: Karl with one of the anesthesiology nurses
Picture 5: Eise during an operation
Picture 6: Mie is advertising for Medics Without Vacation
Picture 7: The driving force behind the hospital: Sr. Maria Borda
Picture 8 - 10: The people of Makiungu receive and say good-bye to our team