More Baobei...

Apparently, Ke Xin [可馨] is now staying with a Baobei Ayi in Shanghai, until they manage to find a 'healing home' (foster family) to look after her and then hopefully an adopter.

According to some other volunteers I met the other day, one of the previous babies (about 3months old) who was born with a massive Teratoma (aparently bigger than her head)possibly a fetus in fetu, and had surgery to remove the growth at 15days old which resulted in her being sliced from hip to hip both at the front and back. She apparently has a waiting list of 200 people (mainly American: lots of Chinese orphans are adopted over to the States) waiting to adopt her. Despite this they think it will take well over a year until she is with her new adoptive parents due to the paperwork involved with the Chinese orphanage, the Chinese Government and the American Government.

I spent my Wednesday lunch time with a little boy (nearly 4 years old) who has some Gastro Intestinal problems and who throughly enjoyed hitting me with a little toy car.