Petition for one to one care in NICU

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This is a petition to get the government to have one to one care for infants in NICU to bring it in line with adult ITU.

Have done, this is so important, DS2 was in NICU and I had to sit there two nights in a row due to staff shortages to hold up the feeding tubes of other babies as they were short staffed.

Have sigend, ds2 spent 2 moths in SCBU 6 weeks of which in ICU, those babies are so fragile 1to1 care is essential.

Have signed

Thanks everyone for signing

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After having a baby in SCBU i have signed too

A big thank you to the mum who started this thread and to everyone who has replied and signed the petition.

I have created a website to explain why I started the petition on the 10 Downing St website www.signitgordon.org/ and from it you can find the Neonatal Taskforce's report - and other reports before it going back years.

I think it's scandalous that a government headed by a prime minister who has lost a baby, who told Parliament that every child is "precious and irreplaceable", refuses to give neonatal services the money experts keep telling them is needed. That babies in intensive care are not entitled to the same level of nursing care as everyone else is morally indefensible.

Hi All,

Please, please take a minute to look at the website set up by irreplaceable and sign this petition.

Have had a look at your website irreplaceable and read the heartbreaking background stories. My heart goes out to all of you. Good on you for taking action on behalf of the smallest and most vulnerable members of society.

I was so lucky in comparison. My DS was born at 33 weeks so not as premature as some but he stuggled at first and needed NICU care for first five days. Fortunately he then improved quickly and only needed special care for another 10 days after that. Don't think anything can prepare you though for the sight of your much longed for baby struggling so badly.

My story has a happy ending and he's now a very loud and boisterous 3 year old with no obvious problems, but I'm so aware how lucky we are.

Remain so grateful to all the staff who helped my son but angry that units aren't staffed the way they should be. I'm pregnant again now and in the back of my mind worried about another pre-term birth, so feeling very strongly about this.

Good luck with your campaign irreplaceable

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Thought I'd just post an update.

On March 10, Ann Widdecombe put a question to Gordon Brown on my behalf at PMQs. When she asked about stillbirths and neonatal deaths, and his failure to implement the recommendations of the Neonatal Taskforce, he said "We are doing everything we can".

I then got a letter from Ann Widdecombe with the official reply to her question to the PM from Ann Keen, health minister. Same response as to the taskforce report: "it is for primary care trusts.. to determine how best to use their funds.. etc"

"Miss Widdecombe shares your frustration.. None of the recommendations of the Neonatal Taskforce have been enacted."

The Govt is not doing everything it can, and Private Eye magazine is warning Gordon Brown to look out for me when he goes out campaigning. (It takes a lot to shock the Eye, but they were so appalled by the case I brought to their attention they put the URL to my website in their magazine.) There's no chance the PM will be electioneering near where I live, but I'm doing everything else I can think of to put pressure on him.

I just wish more people were interested in how babies suffer in this country.

Thanks for your support, MintChoc.