Healthy Baby

Healthy and thriving

This frail baby has a greater chance of surviving now that she can stay in this incubator.

Alistair enjoys some personal attention.

Alistair ran towards us with his arms outstretched to be picked up whenever we entered the nursery.

He was really interested in the camera!

Anisa playing with the toys.

Baby Diana

Divya giving a beautiful smile. (See 'Babies of the Mercy Home.)

Divya ready for school which she very much enjoys!

Off she goes, accompanied by three young German volunteers.

Feeding a very frail baby who weighs 1.2 kg. (About 2 1/2 lbs)

Little Neranjana is actually 6 months old but not well. See "Some sad stories".

Neranjana

Alistair rocks a fussy baby! She's sitting in the lovely new baby chair which Minna collected.

Aswin enjoys the new baby walker we brought with us. (Also collected by Minna.)

The babies loved this new contraption we brought!

Nitya. Inspite of the few sad and tragic cases, many babies thrive.

Nitya playing with one of the toys. Looks like she's wearing her best dress!

Dear sweet Rani has twisted feet. They will be operated soon.

Blind Sandhya. The Home will be taking her to an eye specialist to see if anything can be done.

Sandhya obviously was comforted by cuddling Rani. The two remained like this for the longest time!

Divya has a tender heart and often comforts the fussy babies. Here she gives some love to Sandyha.

Sleeping baby.

Stefina

Sujita weighted only 1.3 kg when she arrived. Now she is a healthy weight.

A smile from Sulekha. You may remember that she has a bone missing in her thigh, which is why she has not been adopted.

Sulekha blows a kiss!

Beautiful Sulekha.

Manchu, aged 9 months, just arrived from another institution, as her previous home was not licensed for adoptions. She was rather traumatised at leaving her familiar surroundings, but hopefully a good family will adopt her soon.