Volunteers tell shocking stories: a child's child looked like a 5-month-old baby

"We are extremely grateful to the leaders and staff of the Kaunas clinics for their warm welcome, their trust in our activities and our support, where our volunteers remained alone for two weeks for two single patients," said the noble initiators. telling the story of the sick boy from the retirement home until the day of the feint.

A child over one year old seemed to be a baby of 4 or 5 months. At first, it seemed like no one answered, we did not know if he saw anything, fed by a gastric.

"Our volunteers, who woke up the first days, started talking with the child gently, shaking their heads, holding them, rubbing their hands, as our volunteer Raimond says:" After receiving a lot of tenderness and personal attention, the child began to change not in days but in hours. The volunteers started to turn their mouths and, more and more often, they rewarded their smiles. I've noticed that even the holes have gangs. After a while already started speaking to one's mother tongue, it seems like you have been asked to stay longer, "says Feisbuke," The Children's Account. "

According to volunteers, the boy would have calmed himself by interfering with the mouthpiece that he had already smelled with blood. So he had a protective fist.

The volunteers were able to make the situation more understandable and to find ways to calm themselves otherwise. The boy fell asleep holding a volunteer's arm or grabbing his fingers.

"As our volunteers tell us, the child has even gained weight." The former girlfriend really has a little more, returning to the pink color, as in this fairy tale, where the ugly duckling sits. is turned into a swan, "she compared the initiators of no one's children.

The volunteers stayed at the boy's home for two weeks, exchanging shifts every five hours, and managed to ensure that the child was not left alone from morning till night.

"During the night, the hospital staff took care of him, which, by the way, worked well during the day. However, the reality is that hospital staff members have not and have not been able to keep up with the children constantly and respond to all their emotional needs. They are therefore extremely satisfied with the help of volunteers and have seen the changes of their children with their own eyes. When leaving the boy, many doctors and nurses came to say goodbye to him, but the doctors themselves pointed out the obvious positive evolutions of the child during this period. We think the boy will continue to receive proper care, "says No Child in the account.

Volunteers always discuss their expectations. It is not a question of doing a miracle in a week or two with a child: the child feels totally safe to progress in his development in order to learn and master certain skills.

"However, our experience only confirms the claims of development specialists that developing a child every day and even more than two weeks can be very important." The love, attention and the heat really works wonders! We know and continue to do so, "says none of the children's initiators, thanking the volunteers for their time and attention to the children.

According to ELTA, according to data from December 2017, 254 children under 14 were being held in children's homes in Vilnius, municipal nurseries, public crèches and non-governmental crèches.

Hospitalized patients were often left alone in the hospital. According to hospital statistics for nursing homes, 52 children were treated in Vilnius in 2017, due to illness related to the development of infants (average duration of hospitalization – 20.8 days), 4 children from the homes of Home of Vilnius Antakalnis (average duration of hospitalization of 9.2 days). ), 25 children from the SOS Children's Village Vilnius (average length of stay – 6 days).

Thirty-five children were brought to the Antakalnis Clinical Hospital in case of a family crisis related to violence, drunkenness and so on.

"We call them children of nobody, so we have named a project to ensure the regular presence and emotional support of infants and children when they are alone in hospitals." We propose to train and coordinate the people who regularly visit each child during his hospitalization, "said Indra Vileitė, one of the authors of the initiative, Eltai.