My friend Tom Penzer Adams is fundraising for Neonatal surgical ward at Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/jhN2IwwWrN
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BAPM has published a new Framework for Practice 'Perioperative Care of Extremely Premature Babies at <28 Weeks Gestation'.
View the framework here> https://t.co/FYciyw0Mds
Today is Exomphalus awareness day. Do you know what it is and the management? 4 babies in 10,000 are born with this and it is sometimes associated with other problems . @BAPM_Official@NNAUK1@BAPS1953@Blisscharity#neonatalsurgery
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#nicuawarenessmonth “quite often we only see the best bits”. There is a process and a journey that families go through to get the end. All these feeling hidden under the surface. ♥️💙
The details which have emerged from the Lucy Letby trial are incomprehensible. We know this will be particularly hard for those with #neonatal experiences, as well as healthcare professionals up and down the country who work tirelessly to support babies born premature or sick.
“Today I wrote a note to a bereaved mother. I wanted to say don’t believe all those sympathy cards. The ones that say “time heals” and “God only takes the best” and “may your sorrows be lessened.”
You’ll only be disappointed.
I wanted to say this is the most heart-wrenching, chest crushing, breath stealing tragedy on earth.
I wanted to tell her there will be days she wants to die, and friends who will not understand some of the things she does or says.
I wanted to tell her she will still feel her child’s presence at times, sometimes so strongly that it is as if they are dancing just at the edge of whatever activity is going on. And other times she might not feel their presence at all.
I wanted to tell her that her life will not go back, that she will never be the same, because a piece of her left with her child.
And that even though the pain does not go away, somehow her soul will eventually make enough room so she can hold it all ~ the grief, the pain, the joy ~ and the love.
I wanted to tell her ~ but I didn’t.
Instead, I wrote this ~ I’m sending love, for words are pointless right now.
And that is the truth.
Wonderfully written by Susi Costello 💛
The trust between nurse and patient, nurse and family has been savagely broken today, by the heinous, despicable and murderous actions of one person.
There will be many searching questions in the coming days and weeks, and we all must do better.
For now, my thoughts and prayers are with the families, who’s unimaginable grief, sadness and anger is something we should all feel and remember.