Your premature baby
If you or someone you know has just had an early baby, you might find our information pages help to ease some of the anxiety and worry at this difficult time.
Supporting parents of premature babies through their baby’s unique journey. We help connect parents to each other, to family and friends, and to national and local support groups.
Welcome
Our aim at Premature Journeys is to support and encourage parents of premature babies by:
- Connecting you to other parents, and to family and friends
- Providing links to charities and support groups, both national and local
- Offering information, news and useful links
Have a look around the site and join us. Membership is free and it is simple to join.
Do extreme human emotions always require a medical label and some medicine to boot?
Dominic and his partner, Sarah Williams, are both doctors who work as volunteers for a charity...
Our Forum is live. Please join us and become part of a supportive community of parents, friends and...
St George's neonatal unit in London, UK has a pioneering family centred care team providing support and much needed care and encouragement to parents of premature and sick babies. This valuable work is funded by BLISS and First Touch and is making a huge difference in the lives of families being helped. It would be great to see this type of work rolled out in units across the UK.
Stories
I am in the unit watching over my baby and feeling pretty sure that most folk here in this over-heated nursery have babies who are not as sick as mine. I am even feeling irritated that nursing care is being divided between my baby and others. This is the level of how nutty being in NICU makes you!
All 4 corners of the room are taken up by 4 incubators. My Ellie has...
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News
By PJ on 21 May 2013 at 10:09pm
We thought we should add the full text of the BMJ research which confirms the increased risk of...
By PJ on 21 May 2013 at 9:08pm
The UK is recognised by the World Health Organization as being one of the best...
By PJ on 21 May 2013 at 8:32pm
If you are considering sharing your bed with your baby read the article below. It could save...
Blogs
Proof of life
By Helene on 21 May 2013 at 8:42pm
Rights and risks and waterskiiing babies
By Helene on 11 May 2013 at 7:11am