The importance of the 5 Step Dialogue…

Our babies are humans too! It’s really important that we connect and communicate with our infants during every interaction… and it’s therefore also important to reflect with what’s going on for us to help us regulate before we connect

Our study investigating neonatal brain structure/connectivity and infant attachment at the #TheirworldEBC is now open access in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠👶 (1/6)

doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.…

Parents, teachers, early years professionals... Do you want to know why and how to support prematurely born children in education? Watch this short video to find out how to access FREE training! Camilla Gilmore Victoria Simms Lucy Cragg The Smallest Things Bliss Baby Charity Sarra Hoy

At 18, my academic advisor told me that “higher education might not be for you” as I struggled my 1st year at Uni. I was determined to prove him wrong. Yesterday, this first-generation, state-schooled student graduated from Cambridge with a PhD.

State school kids, you can do it!

Raw honey is one of the most versatile, lifegiving substances on earth.

Calling it a ‘superfood’ is simply an understatement.

Here are 17 ways that it will change your life.

(warning: reading this may cause the sudden urge to start devouring honey by the spoonful)

When you challenge the status quo, you risk that the difference you bring gets positioned as somehow weird, irrelevant, or missing the point.
If we're serious about diversity & belonging like we say we are, this is an important moment to listen & to say 'thanks for sharing this'.

The EU has just ratified a new directive on substances of human origin, which now includes donor human milk. The directive will standardise milk bank processes, ensure safety/assured access, improve emergency responses and limit harms of commercialisation. ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Day 3 of the Black maternal health awareness week and we are in parliament today!

There will be a Black Maternal Health All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) meeting speaking about the various topics coming out from our awareness week. Stay tuned for more
#BMHAW24 #FiveXMore

Would you like to share your experiences of delivering BFI accredited care in a confidential interview? £25 reimbursement for your time. Please share if you can!

We are University of Derby tomorrow to deliver our 4Louis funded Baby Loss Training for Student Midwives. Helping our future midwives feel more confident to support bereaved parents

‘Those relationships, as with everything to do with prematurity, are life long’. A compelling listen from Nadia Leake and Francesca Segal on the future direction that neonatal care must take.

This will be an excellent and informative watch!

If you can't watch live on Monday, you can catch up online afterwards ⏯️💻

You can catch up with previous evidence sessions here ⬇️ committees.parliament.uk/work/8208/pret…

This morning we held a Black maternal health APPG meeting in the House of Commons. We heard from some great charities in relation to our awareness week topics including BirthTrauma Pregnancy Sickness Support and Bliss Baby Charity Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP Black Maternal Health APPG

#BMHAW24 #fivexmore

📢We are looking for professionals with experience working in neonatal care to participate in an hour-long PPIE discussion via Zoom to help inform the adaptation of an anxiety measure for mothers of premature infants - more info on eligibility and dates below and in the 🧵!

Everyone working in neonatology should watch Nadia Leake and Francesca Segal talk about their recommendations for the House of Lords Preterm Birth Committee so powerful. committees.parliament.uk/event/21244/fo…

Just published!

We explore the barriers ethnic minority fathers face when accessing support on the Neonatal Care Unit - our findings highlight the need to consider intersectionality when supporting fathers

Open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#NICU #DClinPsy #Qualitative

A survey for all Neonatal Nurses working in England and Wales focusing on Burnout and Neonatal Nurse Retention 🫶🏻

Great interactive session on Health outcomes for neonates from minoritised ethnic groups RCPCH
Racial Health Observatory
#RCPCH24

Still recruiting!
£15 voucher for dietitians who participate in the interview.
@peeps-HIE BDA Paediatric Group BDA Neonatal Dietitians Interest Group

It was a really lovely day lots of networking and learning. Importantly a reminder that we have to continue pushing forward. Thank you 😊 all for gracing the day CNO CMidO_StrategyGrp