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  • Neonatal care: overview
    • Neonatal admission: what to expect?
    • What is preterm birth?
    • Neonatal care across the globe
  • Pregnancy and birth
    • Preterm birth: risk factors and causes
      • Modifiable lifestyle choices
      • Medical conditions
      • Sociodemographic factors
    • Preterm labour: signs and symptoms
      • Signs & symptoms of preterm labour and/or preterm birth
      • Prevention of preterm birth
      • Antenatal care and monitoring
      • High-risk pregnancy (management)
    • How to prepare for the NICU
      • Clinic levels
      • Visit the neonatal unit
      • Connect with other parents
      • Pack your hospital bag
      • Find support
    • Delivery and neonatal admission
      • Vaginal delivery or caesarean section
      • Delivery of a preterm baby or multiples
      • Stabilisation and resuscitation
      • Immediate skin-to-skin care
      • Fathers’/partners’ role during birth
      • Transfer to the NICU
    • Possible complications
      • Lung
      • Heart
      • Brain
      • Temperature control
      • Kidney
      • Digestion
      • Blood glucose
      • Infections
    • Another pregnancy
  • NICU experience
    • What is the NICU?
    • The parents' role in the NICU
      • Getting involved: your role in the NICU
      • Feeding your baby
      • Changing your baby's nappy (diaper)
      • Washing and bathing your baby in the NICU
      • Having a sibling in the NICU
      • Parenting multiples in the NICU
      • Support and self-care
    • In the NICU
      • NICU care team
      • NICU equipment
      • Tests and procedures in the NICU
      • Feeding procedures
      • Vaccination
    • Uncertainty, loss, and bereavement
      • Making critical care decisions
      • Palliative care
      • Coping with loss
      • Coping with the loss of multiple babies
  • Going home and growing up
    • Preparing to go home
      • When can your baby go home?
      • Getting organised: what to expect
      • Checklist: Preemie clothing and supplies
      • Preparing siblings for the new baby
    • Transitioning from the neonatal unit to home
      • Preparing for discharge
      • Going home by car
      • Going home on oxygen
      • Follow-up appointments
    • Preemie care at home
      • Challenges & support
      • Feeding your baby at home
      • Bathing your preterm baby
      • Your baby's sleep
      • Signs that your baby might be unwell and what to do
      • Medical care and equipment
      • Suitability of the environment
      • Pets
      • Visits from family and friends
    • Follow-up care after the neonatal unit
      • Medical support when you come home
      • Early intervention
      • Immunisation
      • Stimulation
      • Physiotherapy and other therapeutic support
    • Preemie development
      • Adjusted age development
      • Preemie growth and weight
      • Preemie milestones
    • Preterm birth: long-term impact
      • Kindergarten and pre-school
      • Primary school and high school
      • Long-term health effects
      • Social experiences and relationships
  • Parent support
    • Involving family and friends
    • Support groups and organisations
    • Coping with worry
      • How you might be feeling
      • What you can do to help
    • Follow-up visits after giving birth
    • Financial information
      • Child support
      • Maternity leave and parental leave
      • Health insurance and social services
      • Charities
    • Shared experiences: stories from our community
    • Downloads
    • Glossary
Neonatal admission: what to expect?

What is preterm birth?

Neonatal care across the globe

Preterm birth: risk factors and causes

Modifiable lifestyle choices

Medical conditions

Sociodemographic factors

Preterm labour: signs and symptoms

Signs & symptoms

Prevention of preterm birth

Antenatal care and monitoring

High-risk pregnancy

How to prepare for the NICU

Clinic levels

Visit the neonatal unit

Connect with other parents

Pack your hospital bag

Find support

Delivery and neonatal admission

Vaginal delivery or caesarean section

Delivery of a preterm baby or multiples

Stabilisation and resuscitation

Immediate skin-to-skin care

Fathers’/partners’ role

Transfer to the NICU

Possible complications

Lung

Heart

Brain

Temperature control

Kidney

Digestion

Blood glucose

Infections

Another pregnancy

What is the NICU?

The parents' role in the NICU

Your role in the NICU

Feeding your baby

Changing your baby's nappy

Washing your baby in the NICU

Having a sibling in the NICU

Parenting multiples in the NICU

Support and self-care

In the NICU

NICU care team

NICU equipment

Tests and procedures

Feeding procedures

Vaccination

Uncertainty, loss, and bereavement

Making critical care decisions

Palliative care

Coping with loss

Coping with the loss of multiple babies

Preparing to go home

When can your baby go home?

Getting organised: what to expect

Checklist: Preemie clothing and supplies

Preparing siblings for the new baby

Transitioning from the neonatal unit to home

Preparing for discharge

Going home by car

Going home on oxygen

Follow-up appointments

Preemie care at home

Challenges & support

Feeding your baby at home

Bathing your preterm baby

Your baby's sleep

Signs that your baby might be unwell

Medical care and equipment

Suitability of the environment

Pets

Visits from family and friends

Follow-up care after the neonatal unit

Medical support when you come home

Early intervention

Immunisation

Stimulation

Physiotherapy and other therapeutic support

Preemie development

Adjusted age development

Preemie growth and weight

Preemie milestones

Preterm birth: long-term impact

Kindergarten and pre-school

Primary school and high school

Long-term health effects

Social experiences and relationships

Involving family and friends

Support groups and organisations

Coping with worry

How you might be feeling

What you can do to help

Follow-up visits after giving birth

Financial information

Child support

Maternity and parental leave

Health insurance and social services

Charities

Stories from our community

Downloads

Glossary

Parent Support Groups

Details

Bliss
Go to support group Polygon
Leo's
Go to support group Polygon
NEC UK
Go to support group Polygon

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