Telling your story: Transforming care for small and sick newborns

Do you have a story to share about transforming care for small and sick newborns? Share your story here! This HNN blog series serves as a platform to share stories of success and challenges in caring for small and sick newborns in low-resource settings. Send a 300-600-word blog about your experience or research to info@healthynewbornnetwork.org

Telling Your Story Collection

• 5 priorities for involving parents and families in the care of small and sick newborns
• “Doing Basic Neonatal Care, You Can Save Lives”: Building Capacity in Newborn Health Services
• My Neonatal Story – From a Novice to Advanced Neonatal Nurse Specialist
• Telling your story: American Innovation Breathes New Life into Newborns in Malawi
• Telling your story: Emma’s commitment to Kangaroo Mother Care
• Telling your story: Preterm Hafsa Gets Kangaroo Mother Care
• Telling your story: Time to flood Kenya with kangaroos and save premature babies
• “My baby survived through Kangaroo Mother Care”
• Every Preemie—SCALE Releases Technical Brief on Family Participation in the Care of the Inpatient Newborn
• Disrupting the Status Quo from the Front Lines My Neonatal Story – From a Novice to Advanced Neonatal Nurse Specialist

Read some related stories already on HNN

• Family-Centered Care for Sick Newborns: A Paradigm of Social Collaboration to Improve Maternal Newborn Health Outcomes (India) 
• “Baby Miracle”: Improving Quality of Care at Facilities is Saving Newborn Lives (Uganda)
• Message from a preterm in Niger 
• Ethiopian faith leaders help prevent maternal and newborn deaths
• How Kangaroo Mother Care has improved newborn health outcomes and supported Moms in Kenya
• “Kangaroo Mother Care” programme in India helps premature triplets thrive
• Meet Baby Mckline: a special delivery from our Save the Children partnership (Kenya)
• “A baby is a gift, give it a chance”: A Social and Behavior Change Communication Campaign shifts community perception of newborn life in Malawi

About the blog series

This blog series has been initiated as part of a wider effort to elevate the importance of transforming care for small and sick newborns. Achieving the global average SDG target of ending preventable neonatal mortality of 12 deaths per 1,000 livebirths by 2030, will require expanding provision of care to reach all newborns. Unfortunately, we will not meet SDG3 for good health and well-being unless we transform care for every newborn, including the most vulnerable – the small and sick. These are infants who are born too soon, too small, or who become sick and who have highest risk of death and disability.

Small and sick newborns will survive and thrive as future productive members of our society if we take action. With strategic partnerships, technologies, and innovative approaches, we can transform all aspects of neonatal care, from its availability to its affordability.

Learn more

Check out relevant global discussions and meetings on transforming care for small and sick newborns:

• Webinar on Family Participatory Care in India (September 2018)
• The Preterm Birth/Low birthweight Global Technical Working Group meeting focused on Implementation challenges and solutions of family member engagement during inpatient newborn care (June 2018)
• How can we improve the care of small and sick newborns in low- and middle-income countries? A summary of a global discussion on CHIFA : Part 1 and Part 2