A thank you to Waikato NICU for helping so many little babies and their families

This give-a-little page aims to raise funds to allow the NICU at Waikato Hospital to purchase a portable cardiac monitor. This is our way to say thank you to a team of nurses and doctors who saved our babies, and set our family free. They do such phenomenal work there and it is the absolute least we can do for them all. The monitor will allow for constant, accurate observation of the cardiac function and oxygen saturations of these little preterm babies. This is extremely important as their little lungs are often not yet developed enough to manage breathing on their own and even the slightest changes in their breathing can result in big changes for their little bodies. The phenomenal nurses and doctors who care for these children rely on their expertise in conjunction with monitors such as these, so our aim is to make that a little bit easier by supplying them with a new monitor.

We sat and watched these monitors for hours and hours during our stay in the NICU and they proved their worth time and time again when they alarmed to alert us that our boys were struggling. Their accuracy resulted in swift effective treatment of desaturation (decrease in oxygen levels) and bradycardia (low heart rate), which for these tiny babies can be fatal.

If we can help monitor the next generation of preterm infants then we are doing our bit to give them and their families a long, loving life together.