{"id":615,"date":"2024-07-17T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/?page_id=615"},"modified":"2024-07-26T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T12:32:32","slug":"who-is-the-service-for","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the service for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-104af525\">\n\n<p>The Neonatal Units in NHS Lothian cares for premature and sick babies. 1 in 7 babies born will need support from the Neonatal team. Babies can be admitted to neonatal care for a number of reasons, including when they:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Are born early \u2013 1 baby in 13 is born early, and babies born before 34 weeks may need extra help with breathing, feeding and keeping warm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are very small and have a low birthweight<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have an infection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have a mother who has diabetes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Have jaundice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Had a very difficult birth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are waiting for, or recovering from surgery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/transferring-back-to-your-local-unit\/\">What if I&#8217;m not from Lothian?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Find us on our socials:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Neonatal-Units-Simpsons-St-Johns\/100095525533988\/\">Neonatal Units &#8211; Simpsons &amp; St. Johns | Edinburgh | Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/neonatal_simpsons_st.johns\/\">Neonatal Units &#8211; Simpsons &amp; St. Johns (@neonatal_simpsons_st.johns) \u2022 Instagram photos and videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neonatal Units in NHS Lothian cares for premature and sick babies. 1 in 7 babies born will need support from the Neonatal team. Babies can be admitted to neonatal care for a number of reasons, including when they: What if I&rsquo;m not from Lothian? Find us on our socials: Neonatal Units &ndash; Simpsons &amp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/blog\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"The Neonatal Units in NHS Lothian cares for premature and sick babies. 1 in 7 babies born will need support from the Neonatal team. Babies can be admitted to neonatal care for a number of reasons, including when they: What if I&rsquo;m not from Lothian? Find us on our socials: Neonatal Units &ndash; Simpsons &amp;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/neonatalunit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}