Focus on "skin2skin September" to ensure maintained for 1 hour. Information video on loop in AN clinic for families to watch. Culture change for staff but good results increased by 17% and work ongoing to continue to improve, Andrea Whitehead Preston Atain_M&B #reducingseparation

A beautiful poem, written by one of our talented nurses Megan McGee for Pride in Nursing and Midwifery Day-touching, heartfelt and deeply moving. Thank you Megan for sharing your words with us bit.ly/2DYMPu4 #PINM2019 #poetry

So thrilled to see new mum visiting baby at 1h age with 10ml EBM and with her Golden Basin. Well done Labour Ward, well done mum. Labour ward well-stocked tonight and new staff memo cards have arrived! Thanks SSCB Charity! Great teaching session Moira watherston

Found this very helpful for my A3 journey @WSHTKaizen for Atain_M&B MatNeoQI. So proud to be working with such a supportive & collaborative team that puts mothers and their babies’ first. Lucy Goodey This Nurse Said... Karen Bennett Claire #LOVEPFIS

Delighted to see our QI paper reducing antibiotic exposure to newborns published Early-onset sepsis: can we screen fewer babies safely? | Archives of Disease in Childhood ⁦University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust⁩ ⁦Sue Wilkins⁩ ⁦Rosie Fok⁩ ⁦⁦@JosLatour1⁩ adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

Wishing all of you fantastic & hardworking maternity & neonatal teams a fabulous Christmas & New Year, especially those who will be working over the holidays. Thank you for all you do for mums, babies & families. From all of us in the #MatNeoSIP team & our sister NatPatSIP team

Congratulations 🎉 please share your successes and how you’ve achieved these! We have an Atain_M&B sharing platform on the NHS Improvement hub and would love to learn from you. Thank you for all you’re doing to drive safe care for mothers and babies Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE NHS Maternity Review

#together we can progress further, faster #safermaternitycare

We've received all initial posters from Wave 3 sites on their QI projects & given feedback. They're impressive! We can't wait to share final versions at the national #LearningEvent on 9 March. If you've received an email invite, don't forget to book! It's 1st come, 1st served!

It is worrying to hear that children presenting to hospital later and therefore sicker. Please seek medical attention if: 1) your baby <3 months has a fever whether well/unwell 2) your baby is more sleepy than usual/not feeding/more jaundiced/dry nappies 3) non-blanching rash

This call will enable our academic partners to provide additional evidence on the effect of ethnicity on the impact of Covid-19, including health and care professionals and other key workers. This is an important but complex question where research can help provide solutions.

Yellow is the colour, midwifery is the game! @TeamCMidO team brings a touch of brightness to #IDM2020 and #yearofthenurseandmidwife as the contribution of #Midwives is acknowledged and celebrated NHS England @NHSEnglandSW

"It is essential that the mother and her partner are never considered to be visitors within the neonatal unit – they are partners in their baby’s care." Update to BAPM #Covid19 FAQs now live: bapm.org/covid19 #ParentsArentVisitors Bliss Baby Charity Helen Mactier @RCPCH_TA

Around 1000 babies die each year in the UK from causes related to pre-eclampsia. Awareness of signs is vital. Read more here 👉 saferpregnancy.org.uk/questions-and-… #WorldPreeclampsiaDay #SandsHereToSupport #babyloss

Note the change in advice regarding postnatal visits. Important to maintain the initial postnatal community visit face to face rather than over the telephone.

Sunlight is not a treatment for neonatal jaundice. Using transcutaneous bilirubinometers may help. Find translated illness in newborns leaflets here england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/pu…

Effectiveness of skin to skin contact between mother and baby at birth on maternal and neonatal outcomes among parturients pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c1e6/ac2ecde6e… #SkinToSkin via Indian Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynecology Research #breastfeedingawarenessweek

The new postnatal care guideline for women and babies up to 8 weeks have been published by NICE today. Access them here 👉nice.org.uk/guidance/NG194 Royal College of Midwives 💙 International Confederation of Midwives @MaryRossDavie @BirteLam Lesley Page CBE @djennymidwife Kathryn Gutteridge Mervi Jokinen MSc (Distinction) BSc (Hons) RM TeamCMidO

Latest data from UKOSS and MBRRACE UK showing the clear evidence of real world protection from #COVID #vaccine in pregnancy and the hazards in the unvaccinated. More women have died in this wave of infection than either of the previous waves #preventable by vaccination