by Sarah Poole – Neonatal Nurse, William Harvey Hospital “The inspiration for this room was to create a safe, relaxing space that will enable mothers to relax during what is often a very stressful and challenging time. Milk production is reliant on hormones, one makes milk, one releases milk, and when mum is anxious theses hormones are negatively Read More
Tag: premature babies
WORLD PREMATURITY DAY 2017
Friday 17th November is world prematurity day in recognition of the 15 million babies born prematurely worldwide and of these approxamitely 60 thousand babies are born to UK mums. 1 in 10 babies are born preterm worldwide and according to the World Health Organisation preterm birth is classified as: extremely preterm (<28 weeks) very preterm Read More
CALLING ALL HOSPITAL STAFF – East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Calling all staff at the William Harvey Hospital, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Buckland Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital to take part in the 2018 KM Charity Team Events to raise money and awareness for The Alexa Trust. Abseil TBC Assault Course TBC Big Charity Quiz TBC KM Read More
OUR FAMILY VALUES – Alexa’s Memory Box
Whilst in hospital, we bought Alexa a memory box wherein we kept all of her personal belongings. Little hats, books, teddy bears, photos, etc. Keeping in mind that one day she might want to learn more about her time in neonatal. Tonight we sat down going through everything, this bringing back wonderful but also extremely Read More