La Pouponnière

Today I went to work.. as usual – I work 5 days a week at the orphanage (La Pouponnière). But today was special – wanna know why? Because I got to take pictures with permission of the sister.. yay finally!

My host sister and her friend also accompanied me to work today and they had a great time volunteering with the babies also!

A day at work usually looks like this for the morning/afternoon shift:

1.  Bathing the babies
2. Taking them to the playroom
3.  Playing with them/trying to stop them from crying
4.  Feeding the babies
5.  Changing the babies
6.  Putting them to bed

Here are some of the babies in the playroom - some fast asleep

  I work with the youngest babies from 0-6 months and I have a few favourites :) My future husband Cheikh is quite the charmer and my other babies are Ismael, Pierre and Pascale. 

    Although not all the babies are orphans, they're parents/relatives don't have enough money to support their early years - that's where we come in as volunteers and donors. Formula can be very expensive!

    The twin girls, Ousseynatou and Assantou – oh they are so adorable. Altho they cry all the time, I can’t help but love them. 

    Today the most awkward thing happened when I was feeding a baby girl, not yet a month old. I was feeding her for almost 30 mins from her little bottle. It was only when I started to burp the baby that I realised that the bottom of my work top was wet and then the top of my jeans. O.O Little baby Awa had peed on me and I hadn’t even noticed cause I had been holding her for such a long time.

Here is the little culprit. But I couldn't even be mad at the cute little thing.

All in all, I love my job at the orphanage - it's fun but it's a lot of work!