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Done with Quarantine...or not

7/27/2020

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The Good News & The Bad News:

The Good news: After 3 & 1/2 months, Peru finally began to open back up at the beginning of this month (July)! To get you caught up to where we left off on the last update, we were under a strict quarantine that involved military curfews & only leaving the house for essentials (aka food & medicine) from mid March to the end of June. Thankfully, at the beginning of July, the government finally called a gradual end to the quarantine and began a phased approached to reopening. Around the 15th of July, they began to allow inter-provincial/national travel again (i.e. buses, planes, & boats). Once we finally finished with the government quarantine at the beginning of July, we realized, "Oh look, now we're 2-4 weeks away from Mia's arrival!" Soooo we've basically transitioned from one type of quarantine to another. Haha, the joke's on us it seems. We may or may not be under an official "quarantine" in August, but both Nem & I will understandably be sticking close to home now up until Mia's birth and then for a bit after that. =D 

The Bad News: Sadly, since beginning to open everything back up, cases here in Cusco have sky-rocketed for the first time & the health system has basically collapsed at this point. Given this, the Cusco regional government has warned the population in the last few days that we will likely be under an even stricter quarantine possibly starting the 1st of August. We'll have to wait and see what the local & regional governments decide.

Once the official quarantine was over, the number of cases quickly started to rise. Cusco was one of the few regions in Peru where it appears that the initial, March-June quarantine was successful in keeping the number of cases to a minimum, but now that things are almost back to normal, the number of cases from this past week is starting to cause the collapse of the health system. This has already happened in places like Lima, Pucallpa, Iquitos, and Arequipa. The crisis in the hospitals just hadn't reached our region up until now. All of this is causing the regional government to consider a possible return to quarantine for another 14-28 days. We'll see what they decide and how the health system holds up over the next few days.

While these last few months have not gone anything like what we had planned for the 2020 ministry year here in Peru, we are so thankful that in the end, it's not up to us, & God's plan for us is so much better than what we could come up with! Boy, has this year been a reminder of that. Thankfully, our Heavenly Father only asks that we turn over our plans to Him & let Him guide our steps in ministry & in our personal lives - which is so much easier to say than live out most days, especially for us with workaholic tendencies. X)
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Any Day Now!

7/20/2020

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We're writing this post wondering if it will make it to your inbox or not before a certain little girl decides to make her grand entrance. :) I guess if you're reading this, it means, she hasn't decide to come yet. We are more excited than I can say about her upcoming arrival! We've been counting down the days, and in theory, this should be her birth week! 

We had originally planned to travel to Lima for the birth, but with the ongoing challenges with health care during the Covid crisis here in Peru, we've decide to have baby girl at home here in Cusco, and not travel to Lima as we had originally planned. Nem is excited that Mia will officially get to be a Cusqueñan! :) While I (Catherine) never considered where I was born to be all that important, in S. America it is! One of the most common questions someone could ask you is, "Where are you from?", which shouldn't be confused with, "Where do you live?" Instead, the correct answer to the question is always where you were born. Cusco is such a beautiful region & city! She's is a lucky little girl to get to always be able to call Cusco her birthplace. 

Even though the clinics and hospitals have been trying to get back to seeing non-Covid patients since the quarantine lifted, it's still tricky to receive normal prenatal checkups, even more so, a normal hospital birth. Sadly, the hospital system here in Cusco is on the edge of collapsing (more on this in the next section). So, we've decided to go with the option of having a home birth! Thankfully, we will be assisted by the medical personnel from the local hospital. It's a lot safer and more comfortable given the current Covid situation! We would so appreciate your prayers for:
 
- a safe delivery
- a quick recovery for baby & Catherine
- an easy adjustment for us, Nemo & Catherine, to parenting a newborn :)
- & for a healthy first few months for baby!

We're so thankful for your prayers as we wait for baby's birthday to arrive!
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