NICU Handouts Neonatal Care PDF Download

Download a bundle of handpainted A4 NICU digital handouts and colouring pages to help raise awareness of how parents can care for baby in NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care) during antenatal education with a license for antenatal teachers to print and share with clients and use as teaching tools in childbirth education classes.

- How to Care for NICU baby handout
- When Baby needs Special Care handout
- I choose to focus on hope affirmation
- My baby is in the safest place colouring page
- My baby is healing in every moment colouring page

I've decided to make these free because I really want to help spread awareness and support. Watch my video of 'What I wish I'd Known in NICU' on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fF9QaVjjE

I used to think that special care was just for premature babies - but the majority of babies who receive neonatal care are actually born full term. 60% of babies* in NICU are full term (after 37 weeks) and may need support due to infection, issues with breathing, feeding, jaundice or lack of oxygen to the brain.

Around 1 in 7 babies born in the UK are admitted to a neonatal unit. Having an awareness of what to expect and how to feel empowered would help parents cope and lessen their trauma if baby does need medical care, so I am urging antenatal teachers to include special care in their conversations with birthing families - as 1 in 7 of those babies will need it.

Despite my birth trauma, my passion and belief in physiological birth was not dented, and during my second pregnancy I started creating pregnancy and birth art, which led to making birth education downloads for antenatal teachers, doulas and hypnobirthing teachers to use with birthing families. I’d love to help lessen the potential trauma for other parents by spreading awareness about why baby might need special care after birth, and the ways that we can still feel like an empowered parent even when baby is poorly. I’ve created some handouts which birth workers can download with a licence to print and share with birthing women, and use as teaching tools to have conversations about NICU antenatally - or to help them support families at the time they are in NICU.

Sev, Breastfeeding Support Lead, runs a NICU parents support group at North Middlesex University Hospital. “The number one subject that comes up in the support group is that people had no idea about NICU beforehand. They all agree that having an understanding of what would happen if their baby was born early or sick would have made their journey easier and less stressful.”

I agree it’s important to focus on the best case scenario, and to picture positive outcomes and a healthy birth - but I don’t feel talking about NICU has to be scary or negative. When the message we’re putting across is one of how to be prepared and empowered - no matter how birth goes - then it can only be a good thing. So I urge antenatal teachers to make it a priority to include awareness of special care in their conversations with families - as 1 in 7 of those families will need it.

https://www.bliss.org.uk/research-campaigns/neonatal-care-statistics

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The limited use commercial license that comes with this download means that birth workers, doulas, hypnobirthing teachers, prenatal yoga teachers, antenatal educators and midwives can print to share and use with pregnant women, birth partners and clients. By buying this download you are agreeing to the following terms:

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- Print the downloads on paper or card at the size specified
- Give the printouts as handouts to your clients, or use as teaching tools or posters for your own business
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