The nannies were seen in action today as one of the little ones took a bad fall and landed on his head hard. You know what happened next. A wail from the little boy and as he was turned over a stream of blood ran from his head about an inch above his eyebrows. Quick action and a cloth for compression was established as the child was held still. Of course this happened with 6 other children in the room Greg and I as well as two other caregivers. They were very calm but stern with the other kids to keep them away and engaged in their own tasks of getting dressed. Within seconds there were gloves, disinfectant and more pressure dressings. The medical staff was immediately summoned and we know from all our time there that the nurse on staff is only about 40 ft from where this happened. The staff was very calm. With that many children I'm sure heads get hit quite often. They just bleed so much it is very dramatic.
Just last week we got a taste of this with Losha. He has a little test he does with me and goes into the kitchen area where he is not allowed. Of course he looked and saw that I was coming to get him out, turned quick and ran directly into the corner of the wood table. His little head directly the height to land at his eye level. He missed the eye but hit the side of his head. He let out only a little cry and then stopped and I thought "that was a hard one, what a tough head." Well he was not doing well getting on with the next task and I then noticed that he had a welt in that impact spot. I showed the Nannie and it was right to the ice bottle in the freezer. Now he was crying and screaming with the ice pressed onto his head. It was my first of many of these little trauma's I'm sure. It was not easy to see him crying and not be sure if he was hurt or just really mad. Well he was just really mad. It only took about 3 minutes and Greg had him calmed down and onto the push toys in the Veranda.
They are in good hands here and we are excited to get to have our interpreter with us tomorrow during our visit. We are hoping to get some information about habits and see if they are sleeping with the blankets we got for them. We are also going to share with them our letter that we had interpreted into Ukrainian. We have 4 copies to give out and we hope it spurs on some letters from them to our boys. We think this would be so wonderful to have for the boys as they grow and understand their first year and a half was with these wonderful ladies. They have been at this baby house we think without leaving since they were 2 months old. We still have so many questions about our boys and we plan to gather as much information in the next week as we can. All of a sudden the time seems so short to get all the answers.
2 comments:
Praying you get the answers you need! We spent time with our son's preschool teacher and were shown his workbook, I even took pictures...it wasn't until he was in school at home that I realized that what I was shown wasn't my son's stuff after all, due to his CP there was no way he did what we were told was his...I hope your facilitator can explain the reasoning behind the letters in hopes you get true stories!
Holy Holy COW! Congratualtions to you! Wow. I have been so caught up in the elections that I had not checked into your blog for a while and this is my first post....Wow!!
Two boys! You outdid yourselves. They are beautiful! Congratualtions. We are so excited for you.
We look forward to sharing some of what we have learned. Watch and listen more than you do anything else. Pause alot and allow for a response. Set up the environment to allow your children to problem solve on there own. Tell your children what you are going to do before you do it. "I am going to pick you up now or in a minute or two." Kids understand so much more at 18 months than they typically get credit for. Be honest and communicate with them verbally (even though you speak different languages). Can't wait to meet your little ones.... Coree is 20 months and loves playdates!
Love,
Anna, Andro, and Coree
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