Other content tagged: Partner activities
Developmental care for little patients – FINE trainings in Romania
A guest article by Corina Croitoru, President of the Association Unu și Unu Preterm babies, and ill newborns are properly treated from the medical point of view, but, the human dimension is often neglected. They are ‘just’ patients and the parents are ‘just’ visitors. By supporting FINE training in Romanian hospitals, Unu si Unu Association aims to change this situation. The aim: “Through this project we want to support the babies and their parents. At birth, both the baby and the mother…
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Charity Festival in Cyprus: “Together we can make miracles happen’’
A guest article by Mora Thavmata (Miracle Babies, Cyprus) This year’s Petrolina Charity Festival, held in Larnaca, Cyprus, was dedicated to the Miracle Babies Association. The vibrant festival welcomed thousands of visitors, most of whom were families with young children. They filled the beachside square with laughter and joy on the afternoon of Sunday, the 23rd of September. All proceeds from the festival were donated to Miracle Babies. Mrs. Stella Kyriakides, Chairwoman of Miracle Babies, said in her address: “I…
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Help us with heart – a lovely campaign by Nedoklubko, Czech Republic
A guest article by Lucie Žáčková from Nedoklubko HELP US WITH HEART – one campaign, two meanings. The first is to provide Nedoklubko with hand-made and heart-shaped gifts. The second is to help mothers of preterm infants with heartfelt support. The aim was to give mothers something cute, beautiful, and in dark purple, the colour of Nedoklubko. The idea of purple hearts was born. For World Prematurity Day 2017, hundreds of women provided us with more than 10,000 little knitted socks…
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Working with loss in Ukraine
A guest article by Oleksandra Balyasna from the Ukrainian parent organisation Early Birds. Talking about pregnancy losses and child death is very complicated. It is considered to be a taboo topic in Ukraine. Discussing such a delicate topic and asking openly for a support from others is not part of the Slavic culture. Most of the mothers respectively families tend to deal with their pain by themselves, or at the maximum extend to share the trauma within the closest family.…
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Kangaroo Care Challenge in Hungary
A guest article by Livia Nagy Bonnard from the Hungarian Parent Organisation Right(s) beside you! May 2018 was passing by in our Association in the spirit of kangaroo care. We invited and had the pleasure to welcome Professor Nils Bergman, one of the most famous researchers and the ambassador of kangaroo mother care (KMC) in Hungary. After successful events in 2016 and 2017 we organised a Kangaroo Care Challenge amongst several Hungarian Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) on the occasion…
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Lighthouse Project: Mother-baby bonding support rooms in Istanbul
A guest article by Ilknur Okay from El Bebek Gül Bebek Idea: To provide as best and often as possible contact between mothers and preterm babies Steps of implementation After El Bebek Gül Bebek decided to install a mother-baby bonding room in a public hospital, we approached the Istanbul Medicine Faculty Hospital, one of the major university hospitals in Turkey. We had meetings with the professors of the neonatology department, NICU nurses and visiting mothers to understand their needs and…
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“Tiny miracles” – the first Family Centre in Sofia
A guest article by Petya Bankova from the organisation Our Premature Children Since 2012, the “Our premature children” Foundation actively supports preterm born babies and their parents through community building, spreading of information about preterm birth and related topics, improving the conditions in which babies are cared for in the NICU and building up close collaboration with professionals to advance neonatal care and practices. The Foundation is an active advocate for the cause of preterm birth and works together with the…
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4th Global Summit for Preemies
From 16-17th of February 2018 the association Melletted a helyem Egyesület (Right(s) beside you) and the Hungarian Perinatal Society hosted the „IV. Global Summit for Preemies” in Budapest, Hungary, following the succesful events in Poland, Columbia and Bulgaria. The summit brought together 120 participants, from 23 countries ranging from Argentina to Kenya, Belarus and the United States. Healthcare professionals, parent organisations and policy makers gathered for knowledge & experience exchange. A guest article by Livia Nagy, vice-president of Melletted a…
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