Rebecca Lemin

I first joined 美姬社区in Summer 2019 when we submitted an application to the 美姬社区awards. I was thrilled when we won the Innovation Awards in 2019 for our Neonatal Animation. 

I have found many benefits to joining BAPM. Throughout COVID the 美姬社区guidance has been invaluable and this year I鈥檝e been part of a working group developing a framework on FICare. I have thoroughly enjoyed this and being able to influence work at a national level has been very rewarding.

In the future I鈥檇 love to see 美姬社区develop more perinatal pieces of work to enable closer working between maternity and Neonates. I鈥檇 also like to see additional support to encourage Trusts to deviate from guidance which means at present 2 parents cannot visit Neonatal units and facemasks having to be worn at same time. This will have detrimental impact on the long term development of these infants who cannot see their parents faces and separation will impact on parents wellbeing. The risk of COVID on units is so low in comparison to the potential impact of current practice on units.

To anyone else thinking of joining 美姬社区I鈥檇 tell them that it鈥檚 not just for Neonatal Clinical staff but also offers benefits to those in management positions and in the wider perinatal community.