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Mercy support centre for parents and babies

Mercy Family Birthing Unit provides further support after going home through the Mercy Support Centre for Parents and Babies.

The aim of the Support Centre is to extend quality, optimum care to both parents and babies, by experienced Midwives and Lactation Midwife.

Support Centre Aims

• To support and advise women in breast-feeding management, mothercraft techniques and settling techniques

• To supervise breast-feeding - observing position,technique and to offer advice regarding breast-feeding

• To assist with unsettled infants

• To advise with regard to reflux and colic problems

• To offer post-natal distress support

• To refer you to the appropriate health professionals for further treatment as necessary

• To ensure correct consistent advice is given

• To provide valuable reference resources:Videos, books,pamphlets.

This is a FREE parenting advisory service for all women who have their babies at Mercy Family Birthing Unit for up to eight weeks post-delivery.

For a nominal fee the service of the Lacation Midwife is also available for mother's who deliver elsewhere for up to eight weeks post- delivery.

Open Monday to Thursday 8.00am - 3.30pm.

For appointments please telephone the Mercy Family Birthing Unit on (08) 9370 9420.

If further information please view or download the Mercy Support Centre for Parents and Babies brochure

The Midwives and Lactation Midwife will notify your Doctor of attendance at the centre.

Please allow for a 1-2 hour stay at the centre.

Source - http://www.mercygroup.com.au/parent__babies_support.asp

Gifts for babies & toddlers

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Children's Programs - Babies and Toddlers

Planning for babies and toddlers occurs through relationship-based experiences and interactions. The emphasis is to promote and maintain a secure attachment between a child and their primary caregiver (see primary caregiving), then with the wider environment. Relationship-based programming recognises that children need to feel safe and secure in a predictable and responsive environment. Programs are dynamic and responsive to individual children's interests and intrinsically motivated purposes, taking into consideration a child's emerging sense of autonomy, agency, identity and belonging and opportunities to experience interdependence and independence.

Staff and families work in partnership to offer children potential pathways that are individually relevant and challenging. Various lenses are used to achieve a programming cycle of noticing a child's pusuits, behaviours and communication and striving to understand them in the context of the environment. Staff then plan to offer children opportunities to extend or repeat their learning and revisit past experiences. These lenses revolve around children's secure attachment and patterns of relationship and connection, their wellbeing and involvement in the environment and their primary caregiver's ability to be emotionally available to children as individuals.

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Baby Products for sale

Smart Baby Zone specialises in baby developmental products for your baby from birth to 5 years. Our educational toys include wooden toys, jigsaws, cot mobiles and baby activity centres. Our baby music CDs include The Mozart Effect and Music for Babies ranges. All are designed to relax your child, improving their sensory co-ordination & memory development. We also stock an innovative range of educational videos and educational software for babies and toddlers, introducing them to the concepts of colours, shapes, alphabet and counting. Our Parents Zone offers a wealth of information on how your baby develops. Read about baby signing, yoga for children and much more.

Source - http://www.smartbabyzone.co.uk/

Premature babies study

A protein free artificial surfactant (artificial lung expanding compound; ALEC) composed of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylglycerol was assessed for its effect on the main complications of prematurity in a prospective two stage randomised trial of 328 unselected babies delivered at between 25 and 29 weeks of gestation. Babies were randomised to receive approximately 100 mg artificial surfactant suspension or 1 ml saline. This was given at birth into the pharynx with up to three more endotracheal doses if the baby was intubated during the first day. Treatment with artificial surfactant reduced the neonatal mortality from 27% to 14%, the incidence of parenchymal brain haemorrhages from 24% to 16%, and the severity of the respiratory distress syndrome. In the first 10 days babies treated with artificial surfactant who survived averaged 19 hours less in greater than 30% oxygen, 20 hours less ventilation, and 17 hours less supplemental oxygen. Artificial surfactant had no effect on the incidence of pneumothoraces, pulmonary interstitial emphysema, patent ductus arteriosus, or postnatal infections and no serious side effects. Artificial surfactant (ALEC) given to very premature babies at birth significantly reduces their mortality and the respiratory support needed and should prove a valuable addition to treatment.

Source - http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1246154

Baby News

Up to 100 babies may have died needlessly after undergoing complex heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary, it has been claimed.

Harry Trusted, a representative of the Bristol Heart Children's Action Group, said detailed statistical evidence showed dozens of children may have survived if they had been treated elsewhere. Mr Trusted was giving evidence to the public inquiry into high deaths among children who underwent cardiac surgery at the hospital.

He said: "We will never know exactly how many children died at Bristol because of mismanagement and bad care.

"We think with confidence the figure is probably between 50 and 100 and in our submission that in itself is justification for this inquiry.

"The events this inquiry is looking into may properly be described as a tragedy."

Full content available at - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/636589.stm