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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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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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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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.
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 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 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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Cody arrived at our Anhui Cleft Healing Home (ACHH) at just six weeks of age. He was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate and came to ACHH to receive individual care so that he would be ready for cleft lip surgery in a few months. However, when he arrived he was pale, not very responsive, and appeared very weak with fever and diarrhea. Quite concerned for little Cody, our staff brought him to have a medical evaluation the very next day. At that examination, the doctor felt that Cody may actually have been born prematurely and showed signs of serious malnutrition. Cody was admitted directly to the newborn baby floor for medication to treat the diarrhea and fevers and for nutrition support. However, that was just the beginning.
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One of the main purposes of our recent trip to China was to finalize the details for our fourth healing home – this one located in the Fujian Province. This new home will be a combination of our cleft healing home and our Heartbridge healing unit models – with one floor dedicated entirely to vulnerable babies with cleft and one floor dedicated to children with other medical needs, such as preemies, those born with heart disease, etc. The need for these homes continues to increase, as almost every orphanage we spoke with on this trip told us that 98% of the children now being abandoned have medical needs. As we stood in the orphanage infant/baby rooms on this trip, we clearly saw this reality. Every crib is filled with babies with medical issues, ranging from heart defects to spina bifada to cleft lip and palate. In the past it was already a daunting task for an aunty to care for 10 to 15 “healthy” newborns at once. Now their jobs are even more difficult as they attempt to care for the same number of babies, but ones with often serious medical needs.
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As everyone who reads this blog knows, all of us at LWB have a tender heart for babies born with cleft lip. We have seen so many tiny babies with cleft struggle to feed in an orphanage setting. Their strong wills and determination to survive make us work even harder to make sure every baby with cleft that comes into our hands is given a second chance. We absolutely LOVE sharing their photos, but sometimes we hear from people who say they simply cannot look at the “before” photos as it makes them feel too uncomfortable. When we get those letters, we always wonder if we should stop showing so many pictures of kids with unrepaired lips. However, we always come back to the thought that perhaps if people see enough of them, they will begin to see the beauty of each child no matter how severe their cleft is.
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