Here’s what to do if your baby starts choking
11th October 2018
Parents-to-be are being shown how to save their baby’s life if they start to choke. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has produced a video to show parents how to react in the medical emergency, giving them a step-by-step guide on resuscitation and what they need to do if their baby chokes. Trust resuscitation officer Iain Peutrell was filmed demonstrating how mums, dads, grandparents and anyone else involved in the baby’s care should react and … Read More
Stop smoking programme sees hundreds of pregnant mums give up
11th October 2018
Hundreds of Hull women have stopped smoking after the city was found to have one of the highest numbers of pregnant smokers in the country. Health organisations were given £75,000 by NHS England to reduce the number of pregnant women smoking because links to stillbirth, prematurity and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) also known as cot death. Now, the number of women still smoking by the time they give birth has dropped by four per … Read More
Dads, partners and grandparents can all play a part in saving babies’ lives
9th October 2018
Every family member can play a part in reducing the number of babies lost to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, a mum has said. Jennifer Wakefield’s son Ralph died when he was just six months-old, one of 17 babies to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Yorkshire and the Humber that year. Now, Jennifer works with the midwifery team at Hull Women and Children’s Hospital to give parents safer sleeping guidance before and after their … Read More
Midwives appeal to women not to buy devices to listen to their baby’s heartbeat
9th October 2018
Pregnant women could be putting their babies’ lives in danger by buying or renting home equipment to monitor their heartbeats. As part of Baby Loss Awareness Week, midwives at Hull Women and Children’s Hospital are appealing to women to steer clear of hand-held Dopplers sold by private firms to check babies’ heartbeats. Wendy McKenzie, sister of the Antenatal Day Unit and the Antenatal Clinic at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said using a Doppler … Read More
Teenagers to watch ‘living autopsy’ at Hull Royal Infirmary
8th October 2018
Around 200 students are to watch a “living autopsy” performed by one of the country’s leading pathologists to understand the perils of modern living. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is inviting students aged 14 and over to watch Dr Suzy Lishman CBE perform an autopsy on a living man. The volunteer, dressed only in their underwear, will lie on the autopsy table covered by a sheet while Dr Lishman uses their body to illustrate … Read More