Monday, January 10, 2011

Another Random List of Stuff...

-To have a baby at Mercy Maternity Center, it costs anywhere from 280-450 pesos (equivalent to $6-$10), depending on what interventions we chose to use.  And still, families struggle to pay for it.  A hospital birth would be around $50 (w/o a c-section)

-Our house keeper works for $14 a week, which is very generous.

-Filipino babies are adorable

-Everyday at 4:30, the market gets live fish that were caught that day, and you can take it home (still alive!!!) and feed it to your family for dinner.

-The only reason you would ever have an epidural in the Philippines is if you were going to have a c-section.

-There are no such things as cross walks, pedestrian right of way etc.  You just have to go for it.

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