Today
is International Nurses’ Day and Pampers want to encourage us to
thank the nurses who have helped my little fighter and my family
during the hardest times of our lives.
Directly
after birth, my son C was taken straight to NICU (Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit) and at that moment in time I wasn’t in the right state
of mind to think about who was there looking after him. I had to
trust them. Two days later, when I was able to finally visit C, a
lovely nurse told me all about how C had progressed over those two
days and luckily he was going from strength to strength. She filled
me in on how much of my breast milk he had managed to take and
talking to be about what levels of CPAP he was on and she always kept
me in the loop with what was currently happening and what they were
planning on doing. She (and the rest of the NICU nurses team) were
there for him when he needed them, when I couldn’t be there for my
own son, and I couldn’t be more thankful. I could see the happiness
in their faces when they had good news for me and when I was finally
able to hold him after six days, I know they were just as pleased as
I was. They would cuddle him, sing to him and just make him happy.
They gave him love.
Nurses
really are unsung heroes. Premature babies need a little bit of extra
care and not only were these wonderful nurses looking after my
precious baby and comforting me, they were doing it for the other
families who were also in my position. I don’t think that there is
anything more amazing. I really struggled with expressing milk and I
remember bringing the tiniest amount to NICU at 4am one morning. I
cried my eyes out to the nurse, telling her that I felt guilty for
not being able to feed my baby. She did everything she did to
reassure me that he was doing wonderfully. They had been topping him
up with formula and he’d taken to it well. She told me to remember
that I was ill too so I needed to relax and take care of myself.
This really sticks out to me as I feel like it changed my hospital
experience. I took the advice and was a lot happier, meaning that I
felt like a better mum for my baby too.
A
few weeks ago, I wrote about the Pampers P3 nappy for premature
babies. These NICU nurses have actually teamed up with Pampers to
create them. The nurses are in the thick of it day in, day out so in
my opinion, they were the best people to ask. They experience the
difficulties of oversized nappies every day so the fact that these
new nappies have a contoured fit to help babies grow without mobility
challenges, breathable material designed to protect their extra
delicate skin and noiseless tapes to protect their delicate ears from
stressful sounds will be a huge help and it’s probably something
that we wouldn’t have thought about ourselves.
Pampers
are continuing their partnership with Bliss in their work to support
NICU nurses, premature babies and their families as well as neonatal
care training and education. Today, on International Nurses’Day,
Pampers will donate another £1 to Bliss for every ‘Thank You’
message shared on social media with the hashtag #ALittleThankYou
This is a sponsored post in collaboration with Pampers.
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