This space is our wellbeing resource pages for families accessing Liverpool Women's hospital and Alder Hey Neonatal Unit. We welcome you and your family and hope this are can be a safe space to find support. 

Having a newborn baby is such a huge journey in itself and for there then to be complications and for your baby to be admitted to hospital is a understandably a stressful and often very distressing experience for families to go through. We don't want you to feel alone with this and please reach out for support and someone to talk to as and when it would be helpful. 

You may be looking at this page during pregnancy, during admission or when your baby is no longer on the neonatal units but this resource has been set up to help support you, your baby and your family's wellbeing during these times. Please scroll along to the right and go down to see which resources may be most helpful to you.

If you have any questions, concerns or if you would like to find out about more support please ask a member of staff or request to speak to a psychologist. 

If you would like to speak to someone from the psychological services team please speak to a member of staff. We have psychologists and counsellors on the unit that can offer you space to talk and support you through this time.

These resources are here to offer some support and space to reflect on your growing bond between you and baby.

If you feel like you would like more information, have questions you would like answered, or would like more support with your relationship with your baby or ways to offer development opportunities for your child, please speak to the nursing staff who can link you in with one of us. 

Within this section you will find some information and resources to help you with your own wellbeing through this difficult experience. If you you would like more support, please speak to a member of the staff to get in touch with the Psychological Wellbeing Team.  

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We really welcome your thoughts. Thank you.

-Find a window or door and follow the left side going up with your eyes. While you do this breath in.

-Hold as your eyes travel across the top of the window

-Breath out as your eyes go down on the right hand side of the window

-Hold as you follow the bottom of the window

-And repeat as needed

If you would like to know more please contact one of the psychological services and where possible we will come and support you to use these tools.