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The best place to get more information and support on SCBU is the charity BLISS–see Contacts for details.

If your baby needs to go to the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU), perhaps because she is born early, is ill or has some health problem, it can be scary and upsetting to say the least. One in ten babies need special care at birth, and the vast majority are fine (forty per cent of twins and over ninety-seven per cent of triplets spend some time in special care). Many of these babies need to be in an incubator and fed through a tube until they’re well enough to do it by themselves. There are a number of reasons why your baby might need special care: