Monday, May 28, 2012

How to weigh a baby in kenya

Yesterday I went out with community health to a town about two hours away from tenwek to help vaccinate babies. We had 3 public health workers, two preachers and two public health students with us. When we arrived there were about 60 moms in line with their babies. I was assigned the job of weighing them....so they strapped up a big metal meat hook to a beam and we began! The moms would wrap the baby in fabric then we would weigh them on the hook, then send them in the next room to receive two shots ( one in each leg) and polio drops. It was a busy afternoon and I had fun playing with alll the precious little ones. A few pics for you:

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