In this section, we have leaflets for the Neonatal department. Please only read the materials on the advice of your baby's clinician.
The Recite Me accessibility tools can be used if you need assistance.
Feeding
- Breastfeeding Your Baby at Home with Breast Milk Fortifier
- Collecting Colostrum Antenatally
- Cup Feeding Guide and Competency for Parents
- Maximising your Milk Supply
- Milk as Medicine
- Nasogastric Tube Feeding: Tube Feeding Your Baby on the Neonatal Unit Parent / Carer Learning Pack
- Term Well Baby Feeding
- Tongue Tie and Infant Feeding
- Vitamin K Parents Guide
- Vulnerable Baby Feeding
Unit Leaflets
- Babies Requiring Source Isolation on NICU: Guidance for Parents and Visitors
- Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity
- Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity
- Information following the death of your baby
- Immunisations for parents with premature babies
- Love My Lungs Intervention
- Neonatal Transfer Service
- Neonatal Lumbar Puncture
- Parents Foot Steps Passport
- Personal Hygiene for you baby
- Psychological Support on Discharge from NICU
- Psychological Support on the Neonatal Unit
- Quiet time
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus
- Smoking and NICU Families
- Transfer to SPH Maternity and Neonatal Unit
- Welcome to the NICU Parent Facilities
Milk Bank
For Discharge
- Home Oxygen Therapy
- Immunisations for parents with premature babies
- Infant Basic Life Support
- Safe Sleeping when your baby is unwell
- Neonatal Community Outreach Team
- TB, BCG Vaccine and Your Baby
- Transitioning your Baby from Preterm to Term Formula
- Transitioning your Baby from Ready-to-feed Formula to Powdered Preterm
- Travelling Home from the Neonatal Unit
- Vitamin K Parents Guide
Development
- Bonding with and Caring for Preterm Born Babies
- Supporting your babies development 23 - 26 Weeks
- Supporting your babies development 26 - 28 Weeks
- Supporting your babies development 28 - 30 Weeks
- Supporting your babies development 30 - 32 Weeks
- Supporting your babies development 32 - 36 Weeks
- Supporting your babies development 36 - 40 Weeks
Perinatal Mental Health
National Neonatal Audit Programme
The National Neonatal Audit Programme (NNAP) helps neonatal units to improve the care they provide to babies who need specialist treatment.
- RCPCH Video: What is the National Neonatal Audit Programme?
- Find out more on the RCPCH website
- Download the NNAP Privacy Notice
While your baby is in the neonatal unit, staff record information in an electronic record. They use this to care for your baby, and to help the health service run well. All neonatal units use electronic records. Partners outside the hospital use this information to improve neonatal services through audit and research; this includes the National Neonatal Audit Programme.
To find out more about the audit and how your baby’s information is used, please talk to the staff in the neonatal unit.
eNewborn International Neonatal Research Database
eNewborn is a collection of information (a database) about babies from neonatal units around the world. All the information on eNewborn is “de-identified”; this means it is impossible to find out about or identify individual babies from the database. The headquarters of eNewborn is in the UK at Imperial College London, one of the top ten universities in the world.
eNewborn is approved by the UK National Research Ethics Service (reference 26/LO/0444) for use under data protection and research legislation to improve newborn care. Imperial College London is the data controller for eNewborn and is responsible for looking after the information in the database and using it properly. Everyone involved at Imperial College will keep your data safe and secure and follow all privacy rules. No one will be able to work out who you or your baby are from any outputs of the database.
This information sheet tells you about eNewborn, an international neonatal research database. In eNewborn we use information from your baby’s medical records.
