Last night (7th/Aug) I was back from ministry and i had just made it home at around 8pm as the transport delays me lots in the evenings, Just as i had taken off my shoes and got into the mood of being home until tomorrow, I received call from one of the maamas at #UniquelyWoven and she was like "hey I just thought you need to know that Oliver is about to have her baby, what do I do" , so I said 'okay, get ready and i will send a car to pick you up, we will meet you at the hospital"....I was already excited that I was actually part of this, one of our goals is to make sure that they have a safe birth and the baby has a warm welcome into the world falling in world of love not hatred, happiness not sadness. I called the car driver and he was already there in 5 minutes (better than a Ugandan ambulance) then i called my director and told her what just happened but her phone is the biggest challenge I have found working with her because I cant even hear her and it takes 5 seconds for my voice to get through to her, same experience you would have if you called her phone so I decided she needs a new phone. I took a boda to the hospital which is about 45 minutes away on a boda. by the time I got there my director was already there and Oliver was busy laboring pain and waiting on her time, she went into labour at around 8pm and had her beautiful Grace at around 4:30am, 08.08.2014. It was a sleepless night for me as i had nothing to cover myself up with and it wasn't easy to get the doctors to work, in this hospital, there is only two nurses at night with an assistant, they have a room where they sleep as they wait for the right time to help the moms give birth, the moms who arent ready to have the babies have a room where they cry and wait in pain while on its left is a room where the ones who have just had their babies lay to feed them as they wait for the babies' first immunization in the morning. On the left of the nurses sleeping room is the labour ward. I don't know anything about how the ladies have babies or when but I knew right away when Olive was ready, I went to wake up the nurse and they told me to come in but while i was trying to explain to them the situation, they pretended to be sleeping so I reached out for my phone to call one of the concerned people at the City Hall, these people you can call in case you have problem at any of the national hospitals. When the nurses heard me talking on the phone in a way of reporting them to their bosses, they all got up and got to work and they were grilled by one of the City bosses early in the mourning, they could possibly loose their jobs but it doesn't matter if we get the right people in such places. God has brought me to Uniquely Woven to learn new things and get my heart broken to pieces, I feel like a real missionary, while we waited on Oliver to have her baby, I went on talking to each lady in the room where the new mothers are transferred, there was this 16 year old girl named Betty who had just had a baby, she was with her mom Scovia who willingly helped us with Oliver in telling her what to do and helped the nurses at the time of birth for baby Grace, if we as Uniquely Woven hadn't found them they wouldn't have anything like food or drinks or safe transport back home or they would use a boda which isn't good for the new mom and baby. I also named her baby Suubi which means Hope has been given. Across the room I named another boy Isaac as his mom was like, "I give you the honors to name my child because God is inside you!" There was another lady who had a dead baby girl for two days inside her body, she donated her baby's clothes to Uniquely Woven. There was this other drunk lady who disorganized the hospital at some point and the nurses were afraid she could steal babies if we hadn't seen her, she pretended to be pregnant yet she wasn't, she later changed the story and said the nurses had helped her commit abortion but anyways the police took her out.
After this I feel soo obliged to get a warrant to visit different government hospitals at night to see and report any cases like the one we had last night. To know more about what we do at Uniquely Woven please visit Uniquely Woven. or check out my blog at Silvester Lubwama.. You can choose to support Uniquely Woven by buying out the products on the web store or you can commit so supporting me as I do commit my time at Uniquely Woven. God bless you
After this I feel soo obliged to get a warrant to visit different government hospitals at night to see and report any cases like the one we had last night. To know more about what we do at Uniquely Woven please visit Uniquely Woven. or check out my blog at Silvester Lubwama.. You can choose to support Uniquely Woven by buying out the products on the web store or you can commit so supporting me as I do commit my time at Uniquely Woven. God bless you