Special Care Baby Unit Advice

I want to share my experience of SCBU with others as I didn't know anything about it until I had my premature baby and I think it would of really helped me if I had known a little about it. SCBU stands for special care baby unit, it is also called NNU - neonatal unit or NICU - neonatal intensive care unit. It is a unit within a hospital which caters for mainly premature babies who are born too early (before 37 weeks is classed as premature) but also babies who may have been born full term but have any problems. These can range from something quite common like jaundice to serious conditions such as heart problems. If your baby is premature you are usually told ...  Read the complete review

My experience with SCBU was fortunately a good one. My daughter is 7 years old now but she was born 10 weeks prematurely. I had pre eclampsia and had to have an emergency C Section. I was asleep for this and when i came round my daughter was in SCBU in an incubator with wires every where. she started off breathing on her own, but later had to have oxygen. we were moved to a different hospital and after 2 days we were able to be moved back to our own local hospital. as i was in and out of SCBU all the time, I became friendly with the nurses. they are always very nice to you and the most helpful people. the first time i was able to hold my daughter (she ...  Read the complete review

Today is the third Mother's day I have celebrated, as my son Harry was born just over a week before Mother's Day in 2006, which was lovely for me! However, I shall always remember it because of Harry being in the Special Care Baby Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, and wishing he could have been downstairs in the ward with me at my bedside like all the other babies and mums. But this made me think about the Special Care Unit so I thought I would share my experience of having Harry in the Special Care unit for the first 12 days of his little life! As I have written about in a previous review, Harry was born by Caesarean Section on March 17th 2006, ...  Read the complete review