Nicaragua Crisis – After The Supply Run
I was just so beat after the supply run, that I went to bed and fell into a deep sleep until 12:25 am! The power went out! Not good news.
Everyone is awake. Time to double the guards. Everyone is aware that there have been night raids happening close to us.
We get the children back to sleep and I go back to my bed for a few more winks. The guys have the guard duty all figured out. All is well until 2:30 am when we hear a very loud explosion. Everyone is up and waiting on alert to see what will happen. The children are awake but no-one makes a peep. It is deadly still. Even the animals are quiet.
We are all pins and needles when daybreak finally comes. Nothing more has happened and we start planning on what to do about the electricity. We are not completely off the grid and we need that connection. Two guys go out a daylight to see if they see the problem.
They return in about a half hour to say one of the high voltage switches is open. It will have to be closed for us to have power. We call the electric company and they don’t answer the phones. So it will be like the last three times, we will have to fix this problem ourselves. First, we need to find an electrician or someone who is familiar with working on high voltage wires.
The two guys go out on the hunt for a person capable of helping. They came back at noon with the news that they have found someone but they can’t come until after 1 pm. We have to settle for what we can get and the electrician will be expensive.
In the meantime, our little mama goes into labour! We may need that electricity sooner rather than later… We send out to the midwife and hope she can make it.
Our electrician arrives and has no trouble replacing the switch until two more blew open. Obviously, there is a short circuit in the system! It took another two hours to find the short which was caused by the electric company. They had sabotaged our line!
Our two intrepid gents went out and collected whatever anyone could donate so they could help pay the electrician who was very happy to have the work.
By 4 pm we had a new little baby girl! She was born all pink and rosy. Very healthy looking. Mama is happy and tired. The only concern I have is that the baby is not nursing well. I hope that changes. Tomorrow we have a doctor coming to check mama and baby. The guys will go out and meet her to make sure she gets here safely.
Today is a day of rest and hopefully no more excitement for a while. Everyone is getting into the groove of working cooperatively. When some of the young guys came, they weren’t going to do women’s work, which most chores here. They have lost a little of that machismo since coming to live here. Mama Castor doesn’t put up with too much nonsense. You want to eat, then you need to work!
I will post photos of mama and baby in the next few days.
Congrats to Mama on her birth of this beautiful child. So much hope...
I love hearing about how this crisis has pulled together your community, and that you were able to find someone to privately fix your electricity, and that everyone pitched in after to pay them.
Your last paragraph just killed me! <3 <3 Mama Castor!! <3 <3 <3 <3 You go girl!!! That you can still be holding onto hope and laughter through this terrible crisis really blows my mind. Respect.
I didn't allow my sons to get away with not working around the homestead and these guys are no different. Their mama can't make them work at her house but they work at mine!
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Wow! That sounds intense! Welcome into this great big world baby girl.
I am not sure how well versed your health-care professionals are in tongue and lips ties because here in Canada the information is just now becoming more accepted. Both our twins had tongue ties which meant they couldn't lift their tongue to the roof of their mouth therefore couldn't extract milk properly. It was a challenging road but we had their ties cut and we had to do stretches every 5 hours for 3 weeks. Either way, I hope baby is able to figure our nursing and her and mama are well. -Aimee
Thanks, Aimee! Our medical professionals are pretty behind the times here. One of my sons was also born tongue tied and had surgery when he was a little older. But he nursed fine. The baby is really tiny. I think we would be stretching it for 5 pounds. I don't have a scale here so we don't know for sure. We have a doctor coming today to take a look at them.
Oh that is so tiny! Mine were 5lb. 5oz and 5lb. 9oz and that seemed so tiny. I can't imagine e them being under 5lb. I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts. -Aimee
Thanks, Aimee!
Oh my goodness, what a day for sure, things are really exciting/and or scary down there, depending on how you see it, glad you are getting by and seam to be doing mostly ok.
I don't have a choice but to do okay. Too many people counting on me. There are days when I could use less excitement and I don't have time to be scared poopless. I figure it is difficult enough for the kids, some who are old enough to understand some things...
I'm so glad the baby came and the power is back on, but infuriating that the line was sabotaged!! So who are all the people staying with you? Did you take in people after the violence started?
We took in our a few of our close neighbours. The ones with small children. There is safety in numbers and our homestead is large enough to share space and food with the folks we have here. But I think we are at capacity now. Thank you for your support, @phoenixwren. I appreciate it so much!
Congrats on the new little one.
That makes everyone smile.
The perpetrators of the electric wires knew what they were doing.
I don't like that going forward in time.
You will be letting us know.
A group is much better than a small family.
Strength in numbers.
Francis
Yes, there is strength in numbers, Francis. We don't like what happened with the electricity so we are trying to set up off the grid but getting solar panels is tough right now. I will keep everyone updated the best I can. Thanks for your support, Francis. I really appreciate it.