MSE Parents Club Part 10

tarajayne

elle_gee wrote: »

Anyone found the criteria for a hospital getting the UNICEF award yet? Wonder if that's got anything in it... :cool:

Emailed them Friday! :cool:

elle_gee

Me three! Seems NeoNatal units aren't included... :cool:

jillie1974

gosh... we all posted more or less the same info.

very interesting reading all the same

3onitsway

Wirral hospitals NHS Trust provide 3 meals a day for all patients.
The hospital Patients Information Booklet states that if any meals are missed, a snack box will be provided on request. The booklet also states that no one is allowed to bring in their own food and if anyone has special dietary requirements, they will be catered for.

jillie1974

**It is recognised that rooming-in facilities may not be available within the neonatal unit. However,new mothers should at least be cared for in the same hospital as their baby. Where facilities are available, breastfeeding mothers should be encouraged to room-in with their baby in the neonatal unit

this is from 'the standards bit...
i would take the bit in bold to mean that DD should be getting meals...as that would be 'care'

Sami_Bee

newbie_maz wrote: »

i'm not too worried as i'm only 5ft 2'' and OH isn't huge at 5ft 10'', and neither of us are built particularly big, so she's probably gonna be quite small, and HV seems to agree for now. plus she is putting weight on and is fairly consistent (seems to be averaging about 2.5oz a week) - she's just following a much less steep curve!

she has dropped centiles - was between the 25th & 50th centiles for first 3-4 weeks, then dropped to between 9th and 25th last time at 5 weeks, and is now just on the 9th centile line. that's why she wants to weigh her again next fri, to make sure she hasn't dropped below that line as will then have crossed 2 centiles. but i've looked at what she would need to do to stay just on 9th centile and she'd still need to put about 11oz on by next fri! which seems unlikely to me seeing as she's only put on 18oz altogether in her 7 weeks so far :think:

you sound like you know whats what
I've just looked at Chris's graph and he bounced up and down between 50th and 9th constantly, thats a big difference really but just because 'they' chose to draw lines on those points with only 1 in between he didn't cross 2 :cool:

tarajayne

DD is not a patient, she is a Mum staying in the hospital to support the BF of her baby. Unicef have not got back to me yet!

Claire_Jones_3

Tara PM'd you

Sami_Bee

Tara another
Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital provides meals, snacks, and drinks for BF
Mums. One of the few positives in regards to supporting BF there. I was in
for 2 weeks with my daughter.

tarajayne

I will be back, but dinner needs sorting and Maddy needs feeding. Also DS1 is cooking a valentines meal for his girlfriend and my kitchen is in mortal danger!!!

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