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Calling all dads! Want to be involved in helping out with your newborn but don't know what to do or where to start? Sister Susan has come up with 6 helpful tips for dads. 1. Singing to Baby Dads can try to pick one or two unique songs and sing them to the unborn child often during pregnancy. Once the child is born, Dads can continue to sing the special song to the baby. Dads can attempt the neck nestle and put your baby's head against your voice box on the front of your neck

Having a baby can be a joyful and wonderful experience. It can also be emotionally and physically taxing at times, especially when you are faced with a baby who cries unceasingly. When I was working in a neonatal intensive care unit, having a crying baby created a lot of problems. The parameters in their readings will become unstable, which may affect the treatment they are receiving. In the unit, one of the measures we used for a crying baby was the “containment” measure

Sister Susan recounts, "I enjoy watching YouTube videos and recently, I came across a video of an 11-month-old boy snowboarding with his father in China. It was incredible to see an 11-month-old boy balancing himself on the board, knees bent, and his body slightly forward. He was a delight to watch. Seeing him brought back memories of another amazing almost 3-year-old boy I met years ago. I was working in the NICU at that time, and this little marvel’s sibling was a patient

Newborn crying is inevitable, and it can overwhelm and stress parents. Newborns can cry for up to two hours – or even longer. Crying is the only way your newborn knows how to communicate. Sometimes to work out what they want or need is easy but sometimes, it can be hard to decipher. Trying to understand the reason for their crying and ways to comfort them might help to cope with the stress. Our in-house nurse, Sister Susan, of 46 years of experience in maternity wards has pro

Did you know that there is a device in the market called The Father’s Nursing Assistant? It is a wearable device that resembles a woman’s breast and is equipped with a tank for milk. The device allows our fathers to feed babies as mothers would, and will promote skin-to-skin contact between fathers and infants. Sister Susan shared on an incident when she was working in Australia. One of their little patients could not be breastfed as the mother was not able to visit due to he

Today, Sister Susan is back to share with us another one of her many interesting & educational stories she had encountered back in her nursing work in the Middle East. “I was working in one of the baby friendly hospitals in the Middle East and had witnessed an amazing instance of skin to skin contact between a young father and his baby.” The father was eager to leave the unit after greeting the baby. So, we asked him to get in on skin-to-skin care for his baby son after detai