"Sleep for mum and baby"

My niece visited the children’s A&E and stayed overnight in the children’s assessment ward after a fall. She was cared for brilliantly by all the doctors and nurses and is thankfully doing great. Just a couple of suggestions to help babies and mums get much needed rest while in hospital:

1. Baby had to be asleep for a CT scan so we were placed in a cubicle in the children’s A&E with the lights off to try and get her to sleep. Unfortunately the curtains let lots of light in and weren’t ceiling height with a bright strip light outside each cubicle. This meant she kept pointing to go outside to the bright lights and struggled to settle. It would make sense to have the dark blue curtains similar to those in the children’s assessment unit that absorb the light, ceiling height to help mums getting their babies to sleep when required.

2. In the children’s assessment unit nurses were coming into the bay to do regular obs, most of which baby slept through. However, each time they had to turn the big bedside light on so that they could see while they were writing readings down on the table at the end of the bed, shining brightly in mum and babies eyes and sometimes waking her up meaning tired mum had to keep settling her again. Could there not be a light on the table at the end of the bed/nurses carry a light so they can see what they are writing without having to wake up mum and baby each time?

Might seem minor things but regular disruption to sleep for mum and baby can make a bad situation feel a whole lot worse. 

Thanks again for the great care.