This might include machines to help with monitoring your baby’s breathing, oxygen levels, heart beat, and to give medicines and treatments. This also includes ventilators and other systems to help breathing.
Incubators:
This is a system to keep your baby warm and without needing any clothes if your baby needs extra close monitoring. Oxygen and ventilation support can be put into the incubator if needed.
Ventilators:
This machine helps your baby to breathe, and if necessary can control exactly how much air and oxygen goes in and out of your baby’s lungs.
Monitors, screens and bleeps
Many machines and monitors (screens) make bleeping noises and alarms. These are to monitor how your baby is breathing, the oxygen levels (“sats”), the heart beat. A small probe is attached to the hand or foot and sends the information to the monitor. Often the monitors can bleep when the baby moves as the signal to the monitor stops working.
Most bleeps are normal and just for information, and the nurses are trained to respond to the alarms.
Pumps
Many babies need medication that goes straight into the babies blood vessels (veins). This is given by a pump which delivers medication or fluid as your baby needs.
On the neonatal unit your baby may be attached to equipment to help with extra monitoring and support with breathing and other treatments.
This might include machines to help with monitoring your baby’s breathing, oxygen levels, heart beat, and to give medicines and treatments. This also includes ventilators and other systems to help breathing.
