Pictures from the crazy week!

Here are some of the pics I took of the moms and babies this past week:

one of the moms I "helped" enjoying her new baby

I charted at her birth

baby I caught who came out with a cord coil and a nuchal hand (the hand was born with the head)

I charted at this birth

I think this mom is absolutely adorable and I was blessed to catch her baby

I love this pic :-D

Ube's Big Day ;-D

This morning, I was wanting to do something fun. Looking around the room, the only thing that looked interesting was Ube, contentedly sitting in his usual chair.

He became my victim.

Scroll down to see what fun Karissa and I had with him this morning. ;-D

Also, if you read this, please pray that the rain will stop. It's reached critical condition and there's going to be problems with the dam if it continues to rain. In other words, we're going to get a flood and a lot of people are going to lose their homes. This has happened before and it was really bad. Please pray that the rain will stop and that the sun and wind will come out since those will dry up the rain.

Ube's thinking

Studying

taking a nap

Ube came in for a prenatal. Here she's getting her blood pressure taken

Looking out at the rain

playing in My-My's walker

Getting her fundal height measured

Listening to heart tones - don't ask

feeling for the baby's position

...having a baby... 

meeting her baby

bonding with her baby

baby getting weighed

baby's temperature being taken.

Deborah's kids sitting on a bridge. They're really cute and a lot of fun to babysit

Belly dancers at a pregnancy festival Deborah was asked to speak at. They were fun to watch

Deborah speaking at the festival

My-My!!!!

Photography Ministry out here

God has given me an opportunity to use my photography to bless people out here. I am *so* excited! 

At Jeri's birthday party last week, someone gave her a *huge* stuffed purple bear, who we've affectionately named Ube (pronounced Ubay - ebay with a u - since he's the same color as the vegetable). 

While everyone was having fun with the bear, one of my moms came in for her 3 day postpartum visit and Deborah, Jeri's daughter, got the idea to take a picture of the baby with the bear.

Well, someone got the idea that maybe we could take a picture of each baby born here with the bear and then print the pics and give them to the moms at the 3 day postpartum visit. I volunteered to do it.

So now every couple days I catch a jeepney up to SM and have a few pictures printed. I need to do it again this afternoon. 

I absolutely love taking pictures of each baby with the bear and I've also started taking pictures of each mom and baby together so each family gets two pictures. 

I also absolutely love seeing a family's eyes light up with surprise and excitement whenever I carry a camera and gigantic bear into their room. And then they start laughing and taking pictures too while I go about my work. It's a lot of fun. I really enjoy doing it.

Thank You, Lord, for giving me this opportunity to use one of my favorite hobbies to bless others!

Scroll down to see two "samples" of what I've been doing.

Mom and baby

baby and Ube