About this service
Our aim is to alleviate stress and reduce the isolation of families who experience neonatal care. We achieve this by:
Supporting Families - Due to our own personal experiences of neonatal care we understand and empathise with families who find themselves in similar circumstances. Our primary focus is on supporting the whole family, practically and emotionally from admission to the neonatal unit and beyond, working collaboratively with our NHS colleagues and other services.
Neonatal Peer support - Delivered by peer supporters with lived experience of neonatal care
Peer support can make a huge difference to families who spend time in neonatal care.
Having someone to talk to can relieve stress and feelings of isolation for both mum and dad. It gives you the opportunity to talk openly about your emotions and your worries and help you validate your feelings. Knowing that someone has felt exactly the same as you do right now can really help. Sometimes parents with a baby on the neonatal unit may feel that their friends and families don’t fully understand their fears and worries, or the challenges of having a sick or premature baby in hospital, and they probably don’t – with the best will in the world, how could they? Our peer supporters have had their own neonatal journey. They are there to help and support you when they can. It can feel lonely on the neonatal unit and our peer support volunteers will sit with you by your baby’s cot side for a chat, or in the family sitting room. They can also support you to access help from other organisations.
Information sourced from website: https://spoons.org.uk/support/peer-support/
Our aim is to alleviate stress and reduce the isolation of families who experience neonatal care. We achieve this by:
Supporting Families - Due to our own personal experiences of neonatal care we understand and empathise with families who find themselves in similar circumstances. Our primary focus is on supporting the whole family, practically and emotionally from admission to the neonatal unit and beyond, working collaboratively with our NHS colleagues and other services.
Neonatal Peer support - Delivered by peer supporters with lived experience of neonatal care
Peer support can make a huge difference to families who spend time in neonatal care.
Having someone to talk to can relieve stress and feelings of isolation for both mum and dad. It gives you the opportunity to talk openly about your emotions and your worries and help you validate your feelings. Knowing that someone has felt exactly the same as you do right now can really help. Sometimes parents with a baby on the neonatal unit may feel that their friends and families don’t fully understand their fears and worries, or the challenges of having a sick or premature baby in hospital, and they probably don’t – with the best will in the world, how could they? Our peer supporters have had their own neonatal journey. They are there to help and support you when they can. It can feel lonely on the neonatal unit and our peer support volunteers will sit with you by your baby’s cot side for a chat, or in the family sitting room. They can also support you to access help from other organisations.
Information sourced from website: https://spoons.org.uk/support/peer-support/