NICU / Multiple Birth
NICU Continued Care
Therapies
Babies born prematurely can spend a number of weeks in the NICU and may have quite particular and special developmental and medical needs when they are ready to go home.
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The nursing expertise that Newborn Home Care provides is grounded in the principles of neuro-protective developmental care. We can support you and your baby's carers and support workers, to manage medical therapies, such as home oxygen, tube feeding and administer complex medications.
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Our staff are highly experienced in neonatal critical care and will work with you alongside your parenting values, mindful of the journey that has gone before you.
Self-Care
At Newborn Home Care we apply a holistic lens in our work with parents. This approach guides the assessments we make, beginning with an overview across the domains of baby's health, sleep, crying and sensory needs alongside parent health.
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Sensory Nourishment
After weeks - and sometimes months - of dedicated focus, trying to keep your little prem baby protected from too much stimulation in their humidicrib, it's now time to think differently.
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To do normal ...
To visit Pooh Bear out in the garden ...
To see what he has to say about this small creature in your arms who has taken up so much room in your heart.
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It's time for gentle, rich and diverse nourishment for all your baby's developing senses.
Breastfeeding
We can assist you to continue to establish breastfeeding at your baby's pace.
The Gestalt method of breastfeeding can be tailored to late pre-term babies and newborns with health conditions, with some minor adjustments made for an infant's strength and tone. All the same principles of eliminating breast tissue drag apply and offer a significant benefit in decreasing the energy a baby uses to feed from the breast.
Paying attention to the principles of positional stability supports effective milk transfer and may translate to less need for bottle top-ups.
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Babies with oxygen therapy can generally feed this way very comfortably.
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Bottle Feeding
The experience of bottle feeding, and indeed, dummy sucking are both a significant source of pleasure for most babies who have spent time in the NICU. Let us show you how to read your baby's cues and pacify and bottle feed with baby's neuro-developmental needs in mind.
Parents of babies who spend many weeks in a NICU belong to a very particular and special club. Only they truly know the roller coaster of emotions they have been through. For many, they have spent almost the whole of their baby's life looking at monitors and hearing alarms seeking assurance that their baby is okay.
Their baby has grown before their eyes in the predominantly brightly lit, noisy and overstimulating environment of the NICU.
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And now it is time for home...
We can help you build new memories.
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Using the principles of neuro-protective developmental care, we can show you strategies that as parents you can implement to help prune and rebalance your baby's developing brain circuitry.
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NDIS Claims
NDIS Reports
Health Fund Rebates
Evidence-Based Care
Neuro-Developmental Care
Multiple Birth
Even if identical, your babies will still have their own individual personalities and dispositions, changeable appetites and different sleep needs. The early weeks and months can be incredibly taxing on your sleep and well-being.
Drawing on the latest evidence, we can support you to make the days easier, as you love and care for your babies, and simultaneously move the family towards synchronised night sleep.
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We can help you to explore the multiple layers of caring for your children that together contribute to healthy feeding, sleep and development for each of your babies.
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