You HAVE to KNOW!

Below is an e-mail I received from a mom who is currently in an Eastern European country getting ready to adopt two little boys.  I have changed the names to protect this family, but the facts are true.

I cannot post this on my blog since I don't know who is reading it. I think that is ridiculous since all I'm telling you is the truth of what I'm seeing. 
 
We have visited our boys two days now. We got to spend 4 hours with them yesterday and let me tell you all... laying rooms are REAL and AWFUL! Insititutionalization is no joke and sad to see the effects of. Both boys are wild eyed when they come to us. The haven't been out of that room EVER! Little George tries to go back. It is all he has known for 3.5 years. 
 
 The boys were wrapped in recieving blankets for diapers when we got them. Imagine wrapping yourself in a king size sheet where your legs go straight out to the side and you can't bend at the waist. The tied them up so tight I'm scared to see what thier bellies are going to look like. We took diapers and the Nannies used them but they were soaked when they came to us. I don't think their diapers are changed often. Both are severely dehydrated, their fontanelle and their eyes are sunken in, their skin is very dry, less diapers to change I guess.

 Their nails are awful; jagged, frayed, bent. One of Henry's is split down the middle. They have some kinda hard glue like residue on the ends of thier fingers. I've tried to take it off but it is very hard. 


George has only stubs for teeth where he has ground them trying to self sooth. I don't think either has ever had a proper bath or their teeth brushed. Both of their teeth are in bad shape. They don't know how to cuddle. Being rocked to sleep is completely foreign.

George is on a major sedative that really messes with him. Poor baby is so out of it and uncomfortable because of it. They are treated harshly and don't know a soft touch.

 No child should EVER be treated this way. EVER!!!!

 Adoption is hard, it is taxing in so many ways but compared to what these babies are enduring it is NOTHING! Please contiue to spread the word about orphans. About those who need families. 


 Shout from the roof tops thier situation, continue to scrape up money, pray pray and pray some more!! Because of another mom doing just this we found our babies and God willing in a couple weeks, hopefully sooner, we will be taking them out of that awful place to be orphans no more. To no longer feel hungry or alone. To learn that Mammas are made to rock babies to sleep and daddies are made to play and love. To be taken care and loved unconditionally!!


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