Useful literature

This diary is designed to help parents better understand what is happening in NICU, provide information about basic medical procedures, equipment that surrounds their baby, record all the events and achievements of the baby and prepare for the family's return home with the baby. The structure of the diary will help easily find questions and answers for each stage of the NICU stay, tips on how to deal with common problems, and checklists that help monitor the baby's condition.

In this book, you will find many practical things that are absolutely necessary when caring for a preterm baby, get to know the stories and feelings of parents whose babies were also born prematurely, and get answers to important questions for you.

On this website, you can get to know all the rights and nuances of access to intensive care:
reanimation.in.ua

The guide for visitors to children's intensive care units can be downloaded from the link below. (information is provided only in Ukrainian)

We are grateful to EFCNI, House of Europe, Moving forward together, Czech Centers and the Association of Neonatologists of Ukraine for their assistance in implementing the project.
Topics covered by these standards include:

• oral care,
• changing diapers,
• positioning support and comfort,
• placement and use of feeding tubes,
• body temperature management in newborns,
• support during hygiene procedures, etc.

What is parenteral nutrition? When do babies need parenteral nutrition? You will find answers to these and other questions in our brochure.

We are grateful to EFCNI, Professor Berthold Koletzko for support and advice, and to the Baxter company for translating the brochure into Ukrainian.

The European standards of health care for newborns — Sleep Recommendations — were translated on the initiative of the "Room of Complex Neuromonitoring with the Children's Sleep Laboratory of the Department of Intensive Care for Extremely Premature Babies of the OKHMATDYT National Specialized Children's Hospital", with the support of the Association of Neonatologists of Ukraine.

This translation was made and organized as part of the "EU4Civil Society Sustainability in Ukraine" Project, implemented by "The Initiative Center to Support Social Action "Ednannia" with the financial support of the European Union.

Communication with parents of prematurely born children. Professional burnout syndrome. Handbook for neonatology teams.