PTL, BABY ARMANDO SURVIVES MALARIA!

Baby Arman­do, 7 weeks old, mirac­u­lous­ly over­came his malar­ia, and was released from the hos­pi­tal Mon­day, (Feb. 13th). In addi­tion to the malar­ia, he was fight­ing an upper res­pi­ra­to­ry tract infection.This, too, is now GONE after prayer and antibi­ot­ic treat­ment at home. My thanks to all of you for your prayers for this lit­tle guy, and to the 2 fos­ter moth­ers who alter­nat­ed stay­ing with him at the hos­pi­tal, pro­vid­ing excel­lent 24 hour care.

Baby Arman­do tak­ing a wel­comed nap after leav­ing the hospital.

PREMATURE BABY CONSTANTINO NEEDS OUR PRAYERS.

Weight:  1.4kg  (3 lbs) at 19 days of age, means this lit­tle tyke needs to feed and grow. He is total­ly healthy, just very small since his moth­er has no breast milk due to a breast abscess. With the Lord’s help, our staff will help these con­cerned par­ents to pro­vide all that this lit­tle one needs.

Tiny Con­stan­ti­no. Note that the bot­tle cov­ers more than half his body.

TINY TWIN GIRLS NEED URGENT PRAYER

The twin’s father and his best friend rode 18 km (11 miles) TODAY on a bor­rowed bicy­cle from Mavala  (The Man­go Tree Church Vil­lage), to BEG a can of milk for his 6 day old infants.   The man’s wife per­ished dur­ing their birth on Jan. 12th, leav­ing these 2 tiny girls of 1.8 kg (3.8 lb) and and 1.7kg (3.7 lb) in their grandmother’s care. One was born just BEFORE mid­night on Jan. 11th in Bala­ma, and the oth­er an hour lat­er in the Mon­tepuez hos­pi­tal (60 km/36 miles away), due to com­pli­ca­tions. I gave them a can of for­mu­la and a 100mts. ($1.50 or R18) so the grand­moth­er and father could ride the local “cha­pa” (taxi) on Mon­day to bring them to Bala­ma. A fam­i­ly mem­ber must present the twins at Social Ser­vices in the Bala­ma Hos­pi­tal for prop­er reg­is­tra­tion. Once this is done, we will pro­vide these 2 lit­tle girls with for­mu­la and baby clothes for the father can­not afford the mar­ket prices.

NOTE:  The father received 2 cans of baby for­mu­la and 2 baby bot­tles from the Mon­tepuez hos­pi­tal to get them start­ed. We are so hap­py that this man “did what it takes” to pro­vide for his 2 lit­tle girls BEFORE they ran out of milk. So many wait until the milk is gone, caus­ing the baby to suf­fer greatly.

FACT TO REMEMBER:  When an infant cries, it burns lots of calo­ries, and thus, los­es weight.  Tiny infants can­not afford to cry, for they have no body weight to lose.  Keep­ing them well fed and hap­py helps them gain weight at a faster rate.

YOUR LOVE GIFTS AT WORK!    PROVIDING BABY FORMULA, BOTTLES, AND BABY CLOTHES SAVES MANY INNOCENT LITTLE LIVES.

UNWELCOMED RAT EATER MEETS HIS DEMISE!

This morn­ing our brick lay­ers were walk­ing past our kitchen, when they spot­ted a 60 cm (2 ft.) ADDER (rat­tlesnake fam­i­ly) as it tried to cross in front of them. Our worker’s mot­to is:  “the only good snake is a dead snake”.  In the blink of an eye, one of the brick­lay­ers grabbed the 12 foot (4 m) bam­boo we keep at the kitchen for this very rea­son, and beat it to death as it tried to climb our sand pile.

Adder meets bam­boo rod and los­es, even in soft sand.

Adders are not fast mov­ing, but they “strike like light­ing” with great accu­ra­cy and their fangs full of dead­ly ven­om. Nev­er take any snake for grant­ed in Africa for 99.9% of them can spit far­ther and move faster than you can react. Keep­ing one’s eyes open, espe­cial­ly at dawn and dusk, can save your life.

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

And the Bala­ma Staff