The Ponseti Clinic

Taken from the blog of "Nick and Suzanne".  That's Nick in the blue scrubs in the first picture!

Here's a few glimpses into the training that happens each day we spend out at the Ponseti Clinic.  We love the team we get to work with and really care about their work as professionals and each of them as individuals.  It is a privilege to come alongside them for these months and work together so that families of children born with clubfoot in this region can find good treatment!

Every day when the patients come in to get a new plaster put on, the mamas soak off the old ones in a bath tub outside the clinic.  The mamas have to be so committed to this treatment, it means coming to lots of appointments and carrying around their child with heavy plaster casts on their legs for weeks.  When one mama's baby finished treatment and the final casts came off, the mama exclaimed "oh he's so light to pick up now!" We really enjoy getting to know these ladies and rejoicing with them on the progress in their children's feet!