Middlemore Neonatal Nutrition Specialist picks up five year funding package to help sick babies
Dr Tanith Alexander, a specialist in helping babies gain weight after an early delivery has just received a massive boost to her work at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau. Tanith, a 15-year Middlemore veteran has been given The Health Research Council’s Clinical Practitioners’ Reearch Fellowship totalling near $470,000.
Baby Loss Awareness Week
We remember all the babies born sleeping, those we carried but never met, those we held but could not take home, those who came home but could not stay. Baby Loss Awareness Week takes place every year between 9-15 October.
Providing culturally responsive maternal and newborn care: Aotearoa Patient Safety Day 2021
Today, 17 November, is Aotearoa Patient Safety Day, Te Rā Haumaru Tūroro o Aotearoa, and the focus for the Health & Quality Safety Commission (HQSC) this year is maternal and newborn safety, focusing on safe and culturally responsive care.
Middlemore Hospital’s first baby of 2021 a cause for celebration
Latest News 11 January 2021 | Kairo Teaoa Ariki Singh doesn’t know it yet, but his arrival was quite a big deal. The days-old boy was the first baby born in 2021 at Middlemore Hospital, entering this world at 12. 48am on New Year’s Day.
Maternity staff care for Takanini local mum and newborn like family
Finding out you're pregnant 11,000 kilometres away from home may be a daunting experience, but it was the complete opposite for 28-year-old Takanini local Maneet Kaur who was back in her hometown Bangalore, India attending her sister’s wedding. “It was an exciting time for my husband and I.