Family Integrated Care
Our neonatal unit believes in supporting parents in becoming EQUAL partners with the neonatal team and participate in providing active care for their baby.
In your baby's journey on the neonatal unit with our support, we hope you will feel ENGAGED, ENABLED, EDUCATED and EMPOWERED as the primary caregivers of your baby as we believe you know best for your baby.
Your bedside nurse will be able to give you lots of information about how you can support your baby. You will be provided with a 'Diary of our NNU Stay: Your baby's journey'. You can also keep this as an electronic record which is available on ADD IN.
We also have a family integrated care booklet that is available to download. This has lots of information about how to support you baby on the unit
We also provide monthly parental information sessions on a wide range of topics that you are more than welcome to attend. We also have psychology support available.
There are 'developmental clouds' kept by your baby's bedside which given you ideas of activities that you can do with your baby during the day
We will need you to bring the following items for your baby while they are on the unit.
- Headphones
- Nappies - check size with your bedside nurse
- Cotton wool or water wipes.
- Blankets or muslin cloths
- Clothes - check size with your bedside nurse
In some cases you will be given basic baby life support training prior to your baby discharged. We will give you details for this before you go home. We ask you to watch How to Give Baby CPR - First Aid Training - St John Ambulance and we will then go through this with you in person.