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Multiple births
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About neonatal care
Looking after your baby on the neonatal unit
Being involved in your baby’s care and procedures
Going home from the neonatal unit
Going home from the neonatal unit
Preparing to go home
Going home on oxygen
When you get home
How you might feel when you go home
Medical support when you go home
What support is available when you go home
If your baby is unwell when you go home
Testing a page here 1
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Growing up
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Starting primary school
Developmental milestones
Information for families with a disabled child
Having another baby
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Bereavement support for you and your family
Being involved and making memories
Palliative care
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Finding out your baby's future is uncertain
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Bliss Baby Charter
Bliss Baby Charter
What is the Baby Charter?
Support
Baby Charter Successes
How to join
Information and resources
Information and resources
Resources for your neonatal unit
Resources for parents
Bliss' enewsletter for healthcare professionals
Parental access during COVID-19
Neonatal staff share supportive tips
How Bliss produces health information
Supporting health professionals
Supporting health professionals
Bereavement support
Events
The FINE programme
Family Integrated Care
Family Integrated Care
What is FICare?
What is the Bliss FICare pilot?
FICare pilot updates
FICare pilot FAQs
Get Involved
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Give to Bliss
Give to Bliss
Give or fundraise in celebration
Give in memory
Give as you shop
Leave a gift to Bliss in your will
Making a regular gift
Play the lottery for Bliss
Payroll Giving
Help us keep parents by their babies’ side
Volunteer
Volunteer
Support parents
Help shape our work
Knit for premature babies
Baby Charter Psychosocial Advisory Group
Fundraising and events
Fundraising and events
Events
Fundraise in your community
Promote your fundraising
How your company can help
How your company can help
Ways your company can support Bliss
Our partners
Donate money raised from your company
Payroll Giving
Campaign and raise awareness
Campaign and raise awareness
Campaign with us
Baby Loss Awareness Week
Full Term February
World Prematurity Day
World Prematurity Day
What is World Prematurity Day?
Fundraise for World Prematurity Day
Our plans for World Prematurity Day
Campaigns and Research
Back
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Influencing policy and Parliament
Influencing policy and Parliament
Neonatal Leave and Pay Campaign
Bereavement Leave and Pay Act
Parental leave
National standards for neonatal care
Policy reports
Neonatal services for the future: a manifesto
Our campaigns
Our campaigns
Families Kept Apart
Services under pressure
Better bereavement support
Help babies have parents by their side
Delaying school entry
Parents aren't visitors
Get involved
Get involved
Campaign with us
Neonatal care statistics
Neonatal care statistics
Prematurity statistics in the UK
Statistics for babies admitted to neonatal units at full term
Neonatal mortality in the UK
The global picture
Statistics about neonatal care
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