Prayer for a baby.

One little section of Fridsro is a preschool and special ed school that Julie has started. In fact, for those of you who know Stacey Porter, she actually came out here for 2 weeks last year to train the special ed teachers. Julie's head teacher was pregnant and her pregnancy was just about 2 weeks behind Julie's. While Julie was in the States, her head teacher's water broke and because the culture here is secretive and the medical system is not up to par, this woman did not go to the hospital for 3 days, meanwhile waiting for the baby to be born. Finally, when she went, she was given a C-section, and the baby was delivered with hydrocephilus, better known as 'water on the brain'. The baby is now 3 months old, still in the hospital, and has a shunt to drain the liquid. I think they mentioned that the baby also has meningitis.

Julie was so sad to hear about this. And so bummed that this woman did not go for delivery the moment that her water broke. An infection probably caused this.

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8476
(I saw a lot of this in India -- just bad medicine during pregnancy and birth. very sad.)

The thing is that the Sri Lankans are very superstitious. And Julie was hoping that this woman as the head teacher would have a normal healthy baby. A lot of Sri Lankans believe that if you are around the special needs children, that you will give birth to an abnormal baby. So Julie is worried that this will be a nail in the coffin to her program. Please pray that this will not end the program, and the best for the baby, and grace for the mother and father. And, peace for Julie.

Kisses, G