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Shayna: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

Shayna is a beautiful baby girl who is in LWB’s Healing Homes program at our Anhui Cleft Healing Home (ACHH). Shayna was born in Fuyang in February this year with a cleft lip and palate and has a very sweet personality. At three weeks of age, she was hospitalized for myocarditis at a local hospital and overcame this serious illness over the next two weeks. She was brought to ACHH directly from the hospital and slept quite a bit that first week, but she quickly began to show us her curious nature by looking all about the room whenever she was awake.
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Lindsey: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

In February, a beautiful, bright-eyed baby girl weighing just eight pounds arrived at Anhui Cleft Healing Home (ACHH). Lindsey quickly became attached to her nanny and would cry loudly whenever the nanny left the room. Even at two months of age, Lindsey had incredible eye contact and was eager to interact with the nannies. They reported that once she locks eyes with you, her face brightens and she expects that you must go to her immediately for a chat or to pick her up. Smart girl!
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Lindsey: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

It has been over six weeks since we have had a new baby arrive at our Anhui Cleft Healing Home (ACHH), and so we are especially excited to introduce you to Lindsey! Lindsey is a beautiful baby girl who was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate. She is two months old and weighs just over eight pounds. She appears quite healthy which is such a wonderful surprise during winter which can be so difficult for our fragile cleft babies. She looks so relaxed in Paddy’s arms on the day of her arrival at ACHH…could she be smiling already? Someone must have told her how well she will be loved by her new nannies.
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Blaise: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

Sweet little Blaise from the Fujian Healing Home is in the hospital once again with pneumonia, and he is very sick. He was also hospitalized in January with pneumonia and bronchitis. This poor little guy has been having a rough time the last few months!
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Counting Our Blessings on the Twelve Days of Christmas: Lives Saved

On the ninth day of Christmas, we are giving thanks for all the lives saved this year thanks to our wonderful supporters. You wouldn’t know it from this adorable photo, but little Cody arrived into LWB’s hands in June of this year critically ill. Weighing just two kilograms at two months of age, his initial photos showed a listless baby who was gray in color and too weak to eat. We immediately moved him to the hospital, where he was treated for severe malnutrition, dehydration, and blood poisoning. After being stabilized, he was discharged to our Anhui Cleft Healing Home, where he got the TLC he deserved and where he steadily began gaining weight and confidence that his needs would be met. Soon the somber little baby we all worried so much about was transformed into a healthy baby boy who charms everyone he meets. Cody was ready for his life-changing cleft lip surgery in October and recovered beautifully. He is graduating this month from our cleft home into foster care, and we can’t wait to watch him continue to grow and thrive. We are sure everyone would agree that our world is definitely a much brighter and better place because baby Cody survived!
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Ryan: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

Little Ryan is currently residing in our Anhui Cleft Healing Home, where he has been since July 2010.  He is recuperating from surgery to repair his cleft lip.  He is due to be moved to a loving family for foster care in his hometown of Huainan this week but still needs two more sponsors to pay for his monthly foster care expenses.
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Mason and Cody: From Healing to Home

This week we are featuring two wonderful boys who are soon to graduate from the Anhui Cleft Healing Home after their successful cleft lip repair surgeries. Mason and Cody will be entering our Fuyang Foster Care program and be united with foster families, where they will continue to recover with the love and support that foster care offers.

The boys entered LWB’s Anhui Cleft Healing Home (ACHH) in June 2010. As with many children born with cleft lip and palate, they were both malnourished. They needed to gain some weight before their tiny bodies would be ready to handle the stress of surgery.

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Foster Care News from Dingyuan

Our foster care team’s next stop was Dingyuan in Anhui Province. With the slowdown in adoptions from this province, the number of children in the orphanage is increasing. The orphanage director realized that many of the older children needed to begin their education, and so he has set up a school inside the SWI. We are hopeful that we will be able to help them with some materials and teacher training.
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Cody: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

Cody is a sweet four-month-old baby boy who is now thriving in the arms of our incredible nannies at the Anhui Cleft Healing Home (ACHH). This is a big change from the tiny one-month-old baby who was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate and quickly became very ill.
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Diana: LWB’s Featured Child of the Week

Diana is a darling girl who has certainly been through a lot in her little life. She was brought to the attention of Love Without Boundaries in March this year when she was brought to our Anhui Cleft Healing Home. Diana was so tiny, weighing a mere 2kg! In addition to having a cleft lip and palate, she was thought to have been born prematurely.
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