Who can visit

We encourage parents to be with your baby as much as possible. Remember that you are important to him. Your friends and family are probably keen to meet your new baby; and offer what help they can whilst he is in hospital. However we have a duty to protect both you and your baby in any way we can. That means limiting the amount of visitors and therefore the potential for exposure to infection such as coughs or colds. It also means keeping the nurseries free from visitors around the change of nursing shifts so that information relating to your baby is kept as private as possible.

On one of your very first visits to the neonatal unit, your baby's nurse will give you a written copy of our visiting guidelines and issue you with 4 Visitors passes. This means that your baby can have 4 visitors per day (not including Mum and Dad). You can have a different 4 visitors each day but you cannot have more than 4 different visitors in one day.

If you want a friend or relative to be able to visit your baby without you then they will need a visitor's pass. Without a pass they will not be allowed into the nurseries. For security reasons - lost passes will not be replaced so please take care of them.