What to get for premature baby and new mum

clairec79

If you contact Pop N Grow ( http://www.popngrow.co.uk/tlc-packs.asp ) they will send out a TLC pack of appropriately sized clothes which can be worn in the NICU as they accomadate wires and monitors etc - it goes direct to the baby in the SCBU unit

Tigsteroonie

Our little lad was born at 29 weeks, spent 11 weeks in NICU. In the early days he wore just hats and a nappy. It was only when he progressed out of an incubator into a cot that he started wearing clothes. NICU had some supplies, and we were lucky to be passed some lovely secondhand preemie size clothing.

I don't think I used hand cream once while visiting! Maybe I'm just not that kind of person.

Our son had three small toys in his incubator (sat in the corners) that we now have as momentoes. The other thing we have from then is a small fleece blanket - the unit would put a blanket across the top of each incubator, to shield it from the overhead lights when lighting wasn't required - and it became quite symbolic to us, that was our son's incubator immediately recognisable. (I'm actually welling up now as I remember )

If none of this appeals, how about a Memory Box? You'd be surprised what we preemie mums keep ... small nappies to remind us how tiny our babies were ... the hospital bands ... first photos taken by NICU ... congrats cards ... that kind of thing

eta. How tiny, btw? Andrew was 1lb 6oz, he had growth problems and was delivered deliberately early too. Soooo tiny.

Oooooh, here's an idea, how about a pretty fleece or knitted blanket for when Mum & Dad get to have skin-to-skin time?