Friday started off with another visit to the babies' hospital. It was fun to interact with them again, but also very hard knowing that there is so much more that could be done for them to relieve their boredom. You can see by some of the cribs where paint is peeled off the walls where the babies are scratching. Just hope they're not eating any of that! We put a blanket down on the floor and were playing with a bunch of them. They don't have too many toys, but they have a few things. They were feeding the toddlers, and we were all trying to fathom a guess as to what on earth they were feeding them. It looked like bread that had maybe soaked in something. We can tell though that they don't like us to see them feeding them. Maybe if they'd tell us what they need we could help them a little bit...One bright note was that one little girl's mom came to pick her up and take her home. So there's a constant change in the number of babies who are there. We said they need a few strollers to walk the kids around in, even if it's only done inside. They never go outside which doesn't seem like a good thing. Already some of them are scared to death when you even take them out of their rooms. We did it anyway just to kind of acclimate them to something other than their rooms.
Hopefully Livada will eventually have mission teams scheduled to go in the hospital frequently to interact with the babies. I know they could do so much good there. This place we've visited is in Ludus which is about 45 minutes from Targu Mures, but I think there's another place closer to Targu Mures that they could possibly visit too.
If you have a prayer list, please add these possibilities to your prayer list. The kids definitely need interaction, and there's nothing at all hard about doing it. It's fun!
