First day at the clinic

we just finished our first day at the clinic. There are a surprisingly small amount of kids there right now -only 23 compared to nearly 40 on both of my previous trips. This is very strange. Before the babies always outnumbered us by quite a lot; now in the non mobile group we have 6 volunteers and only 7 babies compared to 2-4 volunteers and 8 to 12 babies previously.
We have Alina who I was assigned to (although we all switched around frequently). She is 7 months old but weighs only 7 or 8 pounds. She was only 3 pounds at birth and was diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome and third degree malnutrition among other things. She is remarkably strong for her tiny sixe though. She and support her body in a standing postion when you hold her under her arms. She can hold up her own head and can sit with support but will fall over. She can also roll from back to front. pretty remarkbale considering she is smaller than I was when I was born.

In our group we also have:
Miruna who is is about a year but looks more like 6 months.
Cristi who has Downs Syndrome, not sure of his age, looks about 9 months but is probably older
Daniel who looks about 7 or 8 months, again not sure of real age, he's doing very well ans is probably the most "normal" of the group
Emma who is 5 months, looks like 3
Paula who is about a year and a half old. She can crawl but is overwhelmed by all the stimulation in the mobile group so she stays with us.
And Andrea who must be about 2 1/2 now but is still in the nonmobile group and doesn't seems to have made any progress since my last trip.

With so few kids we ended up kind of mixing our groups today and swapping back and forth as we saw fit. Our group is very easy so we'd often visit the other groups who are more rambunctios. Luckily the weather is nice so we were able to take the babies outside several times throughout the day. I spent some time with beatirice today who was in my group last time and is now in the toddler group. She was apparently the last oone to move up to that group and is still not quite as comfortable there as the other toddlers who have spent more time together. I also got to see Adrian who had his surgery since my last visit (to correct a cleft palate) and is looking great.

Our day seemed to go by too quickly and I can't wait to go back tomorrow.