Premature babies

Advice about caring for a premature baby

  1. How premature birth affects you and your baby
  2. Caring for a premature baby at home
  3. Neonatal intensive care and special care baby units
  4. Touching and holding your premature baby
  5. Coming home from a neonatal or special care unit
  6. Premature babies and development
  7. Neonatal death

Feeding

  1. Feeding your premature baby: the first few days
  2. Breastfeeding your premature or ill baby
  3. Expressing breast milk for a premature or ill baby
  4. Hand expressing breast milk for your premature or ill baby
  5. Pumping breast milk for your premature or ill baby
  6. Feeding options and supplements for your premature baby
  7. Transporting and storing breast milk for your baby in hospital
  8. Managing your milk supply when expressing
  9. Feeding and monitoring your premature baby at home

Weaning

  1. Weaning your premature baby