As World Prematurity Day approaches a number of campaigns continue to encourage employees to provide extra maternity leave for premature baby parents. We fully back these campaigns and would like to see more focus on paternity leave too. Dads are often forced to go back to work. We also have to think about parents of […]
With just over two weeks until World Prematurity Day, the chances are you will be hearing the words premature, NICU and neonatal quite a lot for a little while. There will be lots of talk on social media about prematurity, and probably a lot of focus on premature babies in the media. Neonatal charities and […]
Neonatal Mental Health People are talking about mental health on social media and in blog posts. Schools and workplaces are becoming more aware of the impact of poor mental health. This is obviously a fantastic step forward. Sometimes you can’t help but feel whilst there is more awareness of mental health problems, there is also […]
As today marks National Poetry Day we really wanted to share this wonderful poem written especially for Spoons by one of our own NICU mums. It highlights some of the thoughts and feelings experienced by mums on the neonatal unit, and the fears and feelings of loss and grief. What is most important about this […]
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