Wednesday 20 May 2015

Tips for anyone visiting an MBU

I posted these during #PNDHour tonight, but thought I'd share here too:

Here's some tips for people visiting friends and family in an MBU.  Psychiatric hospitals can be scary, forbidding, places.  But your visit is a chance to inject some normality, and can really help a mum's recovery.

- Bring healthy, fresh food! Anything from M&S works
- Make yourself at home, however weird it all seems 
- Help with things like bathing baby, especially if mum can't do it alone 
- Bring news from home, especially happy news
- Bring clean clothes for both her & baby
- Take them both for walk around garden
- Take some nice photos of the pair of them - they will appreciate these like gold dust later!

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