Anna Dombkins
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And the same Jemima, she just loved them.
And she was developmentally ahead of where they were at.
And so there was four one-year-olds, but in some ways it felt like triplets and her a little bit.
But she just had all these playmates.
And so she shared all her toys and she showed them what to do and she just...
loved them and there was so much laughter and so much hilarity that Mark and I were just constantly entertained sitting around watching these little people just get through their day.
So we had to use cloth nappies.
And at first we didn't have a washing machine.
So we had four babies in cloth nappies and it was horrendous.
And then we had a little twin tub washing machine.
And then we had a proper washing machine, but you couldn't, in Tanzania, there's a little bug called a mango fly that lays its eggs in your skin or lays its eggs in wet clothing.
Then when you wear the clothing, those eggs go into your skin and the bug burrows down and then it hatches a life.
It's like a plot of a horror movie.
It really is.
And so we couldn't hang the nappies outside.
So we had 20 nappies a day at least.
And so we would hang them all over the house.
There was kind of metal bars across our windows for security.
And so everywhere there was just nappies drying and it looked like an orphanage.
But that was just daily life and just getting through the day.