It’s a Boy! Haim Lawrence Shead Born March 15 at 3:53 p.m. local time here at our home in Chichicastenango with the assistance of a local midwife Stats: 6 lbs., 10 oz., almost 21 inches long. Haim & Chrisi are both doing great and resting well. We praise the Lord for a wonderful birth and …
Baby Hilda: Keeping Babies Healthy
Hilda was brought into the ASELSI clinic as a 23-day-old baby. Hilda has a cleft lip and palate. As I got to asking Hilda’s parents questions, I was very surprised to find out that they have another daughter who also had a cleft lip and palate. They told me that she was in the ASELSI …
Jorge: The Survivor AN UPDATE
Jorge is the 11th of 11 children born to his mother, Lucia. She is around 38 years old and had almost given up hope for her little boy. Jorge entered the ASELSI Milk Program when he was 1 year and 3 months old. He only weighed 8 pounds 7 ounces – that’s what a one …
Milk Program: Josefa, mother of nine
Josefa is a mother of nine children, a grandmother of two, and a widow — all that and only 35 years old. About one year ago her husband began to have leg and stomach pain but they couldn’t go to the hospital because they didn’t have money for treatment nor did they realize how serious …
A New Life — Our Daughter
Saturday morning, June 14, we were blessed with the birth of our third child, a little girl named Israela Victoria. She was born at 6:46 a.m., in the town of San Cristobal on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Guatemala. She weighed in at 7 pounds 1 ounce and she’s 19.5 inches long. See more photos …
A Mourning Mother
Please pray for a mourning mom that I (Chrisi) talked to today at the ASELSI Milk Program. She gave birth a month ago to a 4 pound 11 ounce baby boy. He was born 1 month early. She stayed at the hospital for a couple days and then was sent home. He nursed well for …
Not every mommy gets to hold her baby
In mid-January our friend, Juana, who helps Chrisi and is teaching Hudson to speak K’iche’ called us to tell us her 25-year-old cousin, Sebastiana, died after giving birth to her second child — a healthy baby boy. We were heartbroken at this loss that is more common that it should be here in the mountains …
Milk Program stories: 2 years, 17 pounds
At the ASELSI Milk Program, Chrisi works with many very malnourished babies and children every week. At the clinic, we help provide these young ones with formula or milk, vitamin fortified health drinks, cereals and a months supply of vitamins. We measure and weigh these children every month as well as assess them for any …
Milk Program: Gaining Weight, Beating Statistics
Guatemala has one of the highest infant mortality rates in all of the Western hemisphere. Here’s an example of one little guy who is beating those statistics. In the ASELSI Milk Program where Chrisi serves every week, we see many very malnourished babies and children. One story we would like to share is of an …
Milk Program: a desparate fight
We have a little boy named Rogelio Peliz in the ASELSI Milk program. He is 1 year and 8 months old and only weighs 14 pounds and a quarter. He has been in the 14 pound range now for 4 months. Despite our constant attempts to educate his mom on how many ounces of milk/vitamin …
