Everyone working in neonatal care has a duty to understand, support and share the benefits of breastmilk. Developmentally supportive, family centred neonatal care is a whole neonatal team approach

Holly has been expressing her breast milk for baby Alex for well over 100 days! She’s a superstar and we want to celebrate her and all our amazing mums at the start of world breast feeding week! ⭐️ #WBW2023 #EmpoweringParentsCampaign

It's #breastfeedingweek! Did you know, we have around 40 breastfeeding link nurses at Alder Hey? They're trained & dedicated to supporting breastfeeding or breast milk feeding 🤱 This is something that the adorable Arlo and Mum Sarah have recently benefitted from 💙 #WBW2023

Great to have Carol from Milk Bank at Chester #nhsmilkbank speak to our Liverpool Women's Neonatal Unit staff about milk donation, and the importance of offering families choices through the Memory Milk Gift for breastfeeding celebration week

Thank you to Mama sling who visited us yesterday to celebrate #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2023 it was so lovely some of our TC and LDU babies could join in the session with their mummies. #ficare #babywearing #NICU

We have lots of events happening on the unit this week to celebrate NICU Awareness month and Neonatal Mental Health Awareness Week Jennifer Deeney Liverpool Women's #nicu #ficare #MentalHealthAwareness #nicuawarenessmonth #dadsmatter

We are so thankful to our amazing volunteers who give up their time regularly to help make these expressing packs for our NICU mothers Liverpool Women's #nicu #expressingmilk #prematurebabies NIFN Fauzia Paize Liverpool Bambis #lwhvolunteers

It’s that time of year again! Time to get those Christmas costumes out and show off your NICU graduates! Can’t wait to see them! Tickets only for kids. Adults come in free! Siblings very welcome. Sunday 10th Dec. 2pm-4pm. Hilton Hotel, Liverpool eventbrite.co.uk/e/lwh-nicu-gra…

It's Preterm Optimisation week. Tomorrow we have a full day focusing on the benefits of early maternal breast milk and ways we can optimise the support we provide to mothers. Look out for us moving around teaching. LWH_ANNP’s Liverpool Women's Jennifer Deeney

Today as part of preterm optimisation week we celebrate breast milk awareness for preterm babies. This is the timetable to for the day Liverpool Women's LWH_ANNP’s BAPM NW Neonatal ODN Liverpool Bambis #MatNeoSIP #Breastmilkawareness #Pretermoptimisation

An example of an expressing pack given to mum’s when their baby is admitted to the #neonatalunit Liverpool Women's The #infantfeedingteam offer support and education to both staff and families. #NICU #maternity #fmu #fetalmedicineunit LWH_ANNP’s

Building awareness of optimum care for #pretermbirth #pretermoptimisationweek #prematurityawareness #DelayedCordClamping #earlymaternalbreastmilk #deliveryroomcuddles #NICUbaby chris dewhurst Jennifer Deeney LWH_ANNP’s Liverpool Women's Fauzia Paize Rebecca Clements Saskia Scriven

Great training session on #earlybreastmilk delivered to the maternity staff by #infantfeedingteam as part of #pretermoptimisationweek Perfect example of #MDTcollaboration within #maternityservices #NICU MatNeoSIP LWH_ANNP’s Liverpool Women's

Great day today MatNeoSIP #pretermoptimisation day Liverpool Women's So many discussions around #collaborativeworking and the benefits it can provide to our patients. #PSC #innovationwc #healthinnovMcr #MatVoicesGMEC #NWNeonatalODN

jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba… We’re hiring! Excellent opportunities for experienced doctors to build on neonatal expertise within an amazing team! Tall rich doctor chris dewhurst Jennifer Deeney Richard Haines Fauzia Paize Liverpool Women's Neonatal Unit Nim Subhedar Dr Srinivasarao Babarao

Liverpool lighting up the city to show their support for babies and families on world prematurity day - thank you and big shout out to Emily and FiCare team for helping organise @CEOlpoolwomens1 Liverpool Women's 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 NW Neonatal ODN Sue O’Neill Jill Harrison chris dewhurst

We have the ability to discriminate 5 types of taste: sweet, salty, bitter, sour and unami. Taste receptors are mature 17th week of gestation (Podzimek, 2018) 34 weeks gestation swallowing 750ml of fluid daily

Congratulations midwifery preceptorship team. Great work 👏👏👏

Do you have a little one who has recently graduated from our #NICU if so we would love you to come along to our graduation party taking place on Sunday 10th December. Scan the QR code below to book #NICUgraduate #LWHNICU

Nick Embleton 🦋🤱🎓🌎🌈🩺🔬🧪 Liverpool Women's Neonatal Unit do for all the babies on their extreme preterm pathway as standard in addition to those whose outcome looks uncertain for other reasons