ADOPTION IN NEW GUINEA
I wrote this in Life Stories group but thought I would post it here as it ended up a lot longer then I intended
It takes many different things and places to make our world, and in that world there is us people.
Our lives are all different ,moved by things, people and circunstances,these all go to make the person that we are today.We meet lots of people along the way some stay ,others leave, but they all make some difference to the life we are living. What started me thinking about this is something that happenerd in my life many years ago, and i wonder what kind of effect it has had on the other person.When I first went to New Guinea about the first thing I did as a nurse up there was get called to the villsage to deliver a baby…wasnt very experienced at all.
Father and I started walking down to the village he asked me ..
”How many babies have you delivered” I said
”By myself none how about you” he looked at me and said
”None I Baptise them not delver them” we continued on walking ,me thinking
”well this is going to be a first for us both isnt it.
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Getting to the village we were taken to the house were the mother was all the men sitting outside smoking talking to each other.Here men didnt attend births only women were allowed ,of course he forgot to tell me this when he was saying he’d help.Father sat outside and told me to go in I looked at him said
”Great help you are then” then I went inside . now think about it heres a lady in destress.. because they didnt get help till something went wrong,I couldnt speak very much pidgon at this time so it was hard.
Things got harder as their was complications I couldnt handle.The baby boy was born .he had some fingers and one toe missing ..the mother was hemmoraging and by the time we could get a plane into the village ,she was in a very bad way…the part i wanted to talk about is the fathers reaction to his son ,he would have nothing to do with him .He believed the little boy was posessed ..because of the missing fingers and toe,so did the rest of the village.
When I spoke to father about it he said ”
Its their way Kathy cant do anything about it”.Well the mother died and the village wanted nothing to do with the baby I am now left with a baby that should have just been put outside the village area left to die.not this young missionary I wasnt doing that so I bought him home with me to the station and started looking around for ways to feed him and cloth him..that was a chore,no nappies bottles nothing.
Father said
”Ok mirical worker what you going to do how you going to keep him alive?”well I had no idea but i knew i had a little time to think so i took him to my house bathed him cut up a towel into little nappies and wrapped him in a sheet which I cut up to .
God does work in mysterious ways because I heard the central mission station calling us on the radio again saying that the plane was still coming into our station anyway.I grabbed the mic and started asking for babies formular and bottles the Priest on the other end was stunned he asked
”Kathy something you need to tell us”so i told him my story and he said that he would see what he could do,you see natives didnt feed with bottles up ,there as they couldnt sterilise things.As luck would have it there was a Eropean lady that was feeding her baby he got me some from her… brought them into the station.
I fed that little fellow he survived and i started off a place where little babies like him could be brought in to be looked after .Sometimes I had ten fifteen babies then I started my own little adopting agency not legal I know.. but there were women who took them and reared them .I made up the bottles every day the mothers stayed there on the station we looked after them till the babies were big enough to live on taro, mixed with the formular the government supplied.Just wonder how those kids turned out in their lives, if my interferance made it better or worse I’llnever know.My involvement in their lives is a mystery to me and they will never know I changed their lives ,just hope it was for the better.didnt mean to go on so long here …….mac
oh mac, sounds just like the wonderful person you are, congratulations on what you did for these little ones, wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could find them and then you would have the answer to your question. just a wonderful post, thank you xxx
Thanks skip glad you liked it..not wonderful skip I am sure anyone would have done the same it was justhe time for change I think and I happened to be the one who was there at the time……mac
What a beautiful story! You saved their lives, and gave them a chance at life. It would be amazing if you could somehow find out what became of them. Think of how many lives they have influenced and affected, all because of your loving efforts.Thanks for sharing Kathy!
Thanks cfort glad you liked reading it.i think i will just have to hope it was the right thing to do,and they are all happy……mac
mac what a brill story as all that you write always is for me…i really think you missed your way hun and should have become a writer…maybe it would have been you writing ’50 shades of grey’ hahaha!!!!! infact….i look forward to reading your version of it at some stage…might be fun hahaha!!!! 😀 😀 😀
thank you pollie..yes think I should have joined chatters sooner, and found out about my writing skills … think of the money i am missing out on…mmmt hinking of “50 shades of blue” in the animal world …hehehe thanks for reading my stuff mac xxxxxxx glad you back
Amazing mac. You did the right thing. Doing nothing would have caused regrets later on. You chose to do something about it.
Touching blog. Thank you for sharing mac.
Thing is david\I didnt think, i just carried that little baby home feeling very numb…it was’t till Fathert asked me what I was going to do now that I started to think……then felt i just had to look after him ,,,,was a few sleepless night and also some long discussions with the head of our mission i can tell you…..but it worked out in the end so good mac
Wow mac what a touching story and I hope someday , somehow you get to meet the person whose life you saved ,,,,,wouldnt that be amazing for you both?
It takes a special type of person to do what you did. I know you say you didnt think about what you were doing, but you know maybe YOU didnt but your heart did!
I so admire you! xxxx
Thanks laura but I know I never will meet or know how his life turned out, but I am content in that thought c.I just hope that he had a happy life,and that would be nice to know …..I think laura I amno more amazing than anyone else…xxxxx.mac
what a lovely thing to do cathy,so kind and thoughtful ,he may have been told what had happened to him one day so you will be in his heart x
Yjanks roxy as long as he has had a happy life thats all…..mac
thanks even roxy gremlin working overtime today.
Kathy, just when I think I couldnt possibly find out another wonderful thing about you, I do! To say it has been my honor to meet and get to know you, and then become your friend is an understatement. You have been such a good friend and support to me since I met you. God blessed us all the day you were born. You are a most special lady. Love, Denise xxxxxxxxxx
Denise thanks for the wonderful friendship you have given to me.Glad you enjoyed the story and think their’s a devilish side of me you are overlooking.Have enjoyed being your friend mac xxxxx
What a wonderful thing to do cathy,wish there was more people in the world like you.
I hope one day you get to find out what happen to some of these kids.
God Bless You.
lots love. pauline yorkshirerose
look forward to talking to you more on the net X