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Be Sweet to Babies

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9035 8034

Address: 161 Barry Street 3053 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/4015-denise-harrison

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25.01.2022 As COVID-19 continues to spread, we need to continue to promote normal recommended practices for newborns. https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/covid-19 Keep babies and mothers together if possible, keep promoting breastfeeding and skin-skin contact. This is SO important for short and long term outcomes. Thanks Dr Vieira for the beautiful graphic pictured here.

24.01.2022 A reminder that in our Covid-19 times, keeping mothers and babies together is vital! They should not be separated unless either party is critically ill and requiring critical care. See the blog from John Hopkins Nursing group - https://magazine.nursing.jhu.edu//mother-infant-contact-a/

22.01.2022 Perfect time to remember to continue on with our best practices, while focus increases in other areas. Babies are still being born preterm, or born with with congenital abnormalities, or getting sick and requiring hospitalization. Don't forget the Babies needs to be our motto...and use best evidence in their care at all times. This includes best pain management during the multitude but essential painful procedures hospitalized babies undergo. Remember to Be Sweet to Babies, AND their parents, by using best evidence, and supporting parents to breastfeed during non-urgent painful procedures if possible, feasible, and culturally acceptable. If breastfeeding is not able to be used...holding skin to skin during the procedure. If this is also not possible, giving very small amounts of sucrose before and during the procedures reduce pain.

22.01.2022 It's European Immunization Week. Don't forget to reduce babies' pain by supporting Mums to breastfeed during needles. Our Be Sweet to Babies videos show how https://youtube.com/watch?v=FrKmAth4ZGc&feature=youtu.be https://youtu.be/55tejVjzzwE @UniMelbMDHS

20.01.2022 As per my usual mantra...don't forget the babies!! We are all so affected by the global COVID-19 virus, and the accompanying public health recommendations. However babies are still being born, babies and babies still get sick and babies still need their vaccination, Reducing pain during needles, which occur for healthy babies and sick babies is necessary now as much as ever. Simple ways we can reduce pain in babies are: breastfeeding if possible and culturally acceptable; hol...ding babies skin-skin, against mothers'/fathers' or other family members/friends' bare chest. And, if these strategies are not possible, very small amounts...just a drop...of sugar water, made at home with boiling water and a teaspoon of sugar, or provided by the hospital/vaccination clinic. So, Be Sweet to Babies, and use known, research based ways to reduce pain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrKmAth4ZGc&feature=youtu.be See more

18.01.2022 Thanks to my postdoc Dr Ana Claudia Vieira, who worked with me at The School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, her Facebook study of our Portuguese Be Sweet to Babies video is now published https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pne2.12022 This unique study shows that Facebook was an effective platform for sharing our video and also for collecting data. This is important for our work, in sharing information with parents, about best ways to help reduce pain during commonly performed painful procedures in babies.

17.01.2022 My brief video about Being Sweet to Babies. Thanks Dr Ana Vieira for requesting me to do this!!!

11.01.2022 Only 3 weeks to go until my PhD at University of Melbourne studentship deadline. Interested in pursuing a PhD in the area of neonatal/infant pain management, parent involvement in pain care with me? Interested in a funded studentship at the Department of Nursing, University of Melbourne? See details in this link https://healthsciences.unimelb.edu.au//phd-studentship-be-

11.01.2022 Very cool 'Facebook' study by Dr Ana Claudia Vieira conducted during her Post-doc with me in the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr Viera showed that sharing the Portuguese Be Sweet to Babies video on Facebook, after one year, resulted in 70,753 page views, 2199 accesses & the brief survey also accessed from the Page, was completed by 930. This is a 42% response rate based on page accesses. So exciting to see this work published. The paper is published as Full Text ahead of Print - and is part of the Solutions for Pain in Kids (SKiP) Special Knowledge Mobilization issue in the Journal Paediatric and Neonatal Pain. The whole issue will be available soon. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pne2.12022

08.01.2022 Still open...Interested in pursuing a PhD in the area of neonatal/infant pain management, parent involvement in pain care with me? Interested in a funded studentship at the Department of Nursing, University of Melbourne? See details in this link https://healthsciences.unimelb.edu.au//phd-studentship-be-

07.01.2022 Thought it was time to send photos of some of our lovely gum trees and birds from our Melbourne, Australia street. Hope you like them.

05.01.2022 Very brief reminder to Be Sweet to Babies - breastfeed or hold skin-skin during painful procedures. Don't separate Mums from newborns.

05.01.2022 Although COVID-19 Pandemic is the global health priority, we cannot forget the newborn healthy babies and sick babies and kids who are sick/hospitalized for all the usual reasons. Ensuring consistent use of effective pain treatments especially during needle-related procedures remains a priority. For babies born to mothers who are infected with COVID-19, as per World Health Organization and Unicef guidelines, babies should remain with their mothers, be breastfed and held skin...-skin, and not separated. Here is a link to these guidelines. http://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/24184 Although some recommendations exist that babies should be separated from their COVID-19 mothers, this is not borne out by these guidelines, plus separating mothers from their babies puts both at risk of short and long-term harm. More than ever, we need to keep mothers and their newborns together and support breastfeeding and skin-to-skin. Take care everyone, and do your best. See more