Paediatric nurse Vilma Wong touched to discover new colleague was a baby patient she cared for 28 years ago. A nurse in California was stunned to discover her newest colleague was in fact a baby she had cared for 28 years earlier. Vilma Wong first met Brandon Seminatore at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford […]
We’re thrilled to introduce our shiny new sibling packs. These are available to brothers and sisters of babies in neonatal care at NMGH and Royal Oldham. We think siblings play an important role in the neonatal journey, so we want to provide them with their own special keepsakes and milestone cards. We have also filled […]
Nearly a quarter (23%) were diagnosed with anxiety, 16% with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and 14% with postnatal depression after spending time on the NICU, according to the survey of 589 mums and dads with experience of neonatal care, by baby charity Bliss. Katie and Jonathan Jones’s son Ray was born at 27 weeks gestation […]
There has been a lot of breastfeeding talk over the last week. Breast milk is the best source of nutrition for premature or sick babies. Unfortunately though this is often given via a tube into the baby’s tummy. This means mums have to express breast milk which is difficult and time consuming. Currently the NICU […]
Well done to Rosie from the infant feeding team at Oldham and Steph from NMGH. A special shout out to all the mums with a baby in neonatal care who are currently carrying out the gruelling task of expressing breastmilk throughout the day and night. It’s not easy but parents on the units have great […]