Hi my name is Abigail..

Week two in Panama! I saw a baby being born for the first time and it was amazing. I was so excited that I got to witness such an incredible miracle and was fine with only seeing one birth in my lifetime. However, I got the chance to see a few more today and now I´m pretty sure I´m going to adopt.. On a better note, the babies were adorable! God is really showing me a lot about myself and making me truly thankful for how much I have. Some of the children in the hospital were just left there and abandoned by their parents at birth due to a birth defect or inability to care for the child. I met a little boy today that had a mental problem and had been abandoned, but he was the cutest child, weighing in at 6.5 kg at age 2, he captured the hearts of all the students he encountered. I got the opportunity to start an IV on a baby and was ecstatic that it was successful the first time. Overall, this trip has been quite an experience so far and I´m loving all the skill practice that I´ve been getting. I can finally say that I´m comfortable with IM injections and starting IVs :)