Again this year,  because of Covid restrictions, we are sadly unable to meet in person at St George’s for our Annual Neonatal Memorial Service. However, we can all still come together via our online service to remember the too-brief lives of these precious babies and to celebrate all the love they left behind. The service will be available online from …

Every year we come together for our Annual Neonatal Memorial Service to remember and honour all the cherished babies who have died. This event is very important to the babies’ families and to the neonatal staff who cared for them. Again this year we are sadly unable to meet in person and so the unit has arranged an online service …

Channel 4’s new three part series, Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles, highlights the amazing skill and sensitivity of the Fetal Medicine Unit at St George’s.  We see the surgeons perform life-saving surgery before babies are even born and support their parents through some very difficult choices. Episodes two and three, which feature appearances by nnu staff including Dr Anay Kulkarni and …

First Touch is very proud to be supporting a fantastic new initiative on the nnu to introduce parent peer supporters who will help mums and dads with their neonatal unit journey. The unit’s staff are hoping to recruit parents who have completed their own journeys, to offer help and support to current families. Full training will be given. If you …

The First Touch St George’s NNu Graduates’ Christmas Zoom party is happening today, Sunday 13th Decmeber, at 3pm We may not all be able to meet at St George’s but we can bring you 45 minutes of fab Christmas fun from the brilliant Dantastic Productions straight to your homes live via Zoom. If you were at last year’s party you’ll …

We know the expressing rooms on the NNU and SCBU are more than simply a facility for mums to express their precious”liquid gold”. These rooms are a place where mums can sit and decompress and where enduring friendships are formed. First Touch was delighted to support SCBU Ward Manager, Cathie Wells in a recent refurbishment of their expressing room. The …

We are very grateful to everyone at Anytime Fitness in Sutton for their recent support. Elaine Crossley, the Club’s Manager told us: At Anytime Fitness Sutton, working with the community is very important to us and a few times a year we hold Fundraising Events.  One of our members, Francesca, suggested First Touch as she already donates and is very …

We’d like to share this lovely letter we recently received from the Chapman family:   Dear First Touch/NNU We just want to thank you and all your staff for all the amazing work you do day in, day out. After giving birth at St George’s and spending 10 weeks In the neonatal unit, we finally made it home last week. …

This year, because of current restrictions, we are sadly unable to meet at St George’s for our Annual Neonatal Memorial Service. However, we can all still come together via our online service to remember the too-brief lives of these precious babies and to celebrate the love they left behind.   “The smallest feet leave the biggest footprints in our hearts” …

The Annual Neonatal Memorial Service is a very important event for the families of babies who have died and for the neonatal staff who cared for them. Although this year we sadly cannot meet in person, we are planning an online service which everyone will be able to join from home to remember and to celebrate the precious babies who …