All About Jaida!

Jaida is estimated to have been born on January 3, 2006 in the Anhui Province of China. She was found abandoned, as many little girls do in China due to the strict "one child" policy that was instituted in the early 1980s to limit the exploding chinese population. She was found by a citizen on January 22, 2006 in front of the Anhui Affiliated Hospital. There were no belongings with her and the parents were not found. She was taken by the police to the Hefei Children's Welfare Institute.

When she was brought to the institute, they named her Lu Na Qun. Lu is her last name and it is the common surname given to all the children in this specific institute. Na is her first name and means beautiful and Qun is her middle name which stands for social. The nannies of the institute wish for her to be a gentle and social girl in the future.

On her initial medical checkup at 19 days of age, she weighed 7.26 pounds and her height was 20.29 inches. Her estimated date of birth was January 3, 2006. Jaida was born with cleft lip and cleft palate, but as you can see from the pictures, this need has definitely not slowed down her growth.

According to her growth report, she has always been right on target developmentally and started walking on her own around 12 months of age.

On November 2, 2006, Jaida received help from the wonderful charity organization named "Love Without Boundaries" and underwent cleft lip repair surgery in the Anhui Children's Hospital. She received special care following her surgery from the staff at the Children's Welfare Institute to facilitate her recovery and she recovered very well. As you can see from her pictures, the surgeon did an excellent job in repairing her lip and the scar is barely noticeable. Her cleft palate has not been repaired yet as far as we know and we will have it repaired by our Cleft Team here in Wichita a couple of months after we have her home.

On March 27, 2007, Jaida entered "Sunshine Village," which is a foster family style apartment living and gives many of the children at the orphanage the opportunity to live in a family-type environment with other orphaned foster brothers and sisters with a foster mom and dad. This program began on this orphanage campus in November 2001 and has been very successful. We are so glad that Jaida has been blessed to be a part of this program. It is just one more way that God has always been with our Jaida to take care of her until we bring her home to her forever family.

Jaida is described as active, smart, and lovely. She likes to listen to music, play games, and go outside. She is a good eater and a sound sleeper.

At this time, this is all the information we have on her. We just can't wait to bring her home and put a smile on her face-we know she has one in there somewhere. We think she is saving it for us when we finally become her family. We know Jaida is going to be a huge blessing to our family!