‘I couldn’t believe it wasn’t standard’: Inside Northern Beaches Hospital’s Special Care Nursery

Warning: this article deals with pregnancy loss. After six years of miscarriages and IVF, Sean Maloney and Marissa Pace never expected the hardest part of their journey to come after the birth. Northern Beaches Hospital’s Special Care Nursery has a bed next to every humidicrib. And it made all the difference when Sean and Marissa’s daughter, Finn, arrived at 35 weeks. “Knowing that there was a place that you could come and be next to her and sleep next to her really meant everything,” Marissa told Manly Observer. “I couldn’t believe that beds next to humidicribs weren’t a thing everywhere,” Sean added. “I thought that it would just be common sense.” Let’s start at the beginningSean and Marissa met in Hong Kong in 2019, while working together at World...

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