Victoria's triplets spent nine weeks in Southampton's neonatal unit and staff sent updates via a new app.
Southampton's neonatal unit is one of 60 in the UK using the trusted NHS app to help connect new parents with their babies around the clock.Victoria and her partner Derrick were able to log on to the app at home and see updates on their babies, even in the middle of the night.Victoria said:"You get this lovely picture and it usually has a message saying 'Hi mummy, Hi daddy. Having a lovely evening'.
"You have to leave your babies and you feel so guilty leaving them. To know that they are in such safe hands, and with people who care enough to take a picture and just send it to you to make you feel good, is amazing." Fiona Lawson, a matron at the hospital, said it was a wrench for parents to be separated from their baby or in Victoria's case, babies.
"To be able to soften that blow by sending them videos, sending them photos, little messages, is really lovely for us to do."Over the last two years more than 5,000 families have benefited. It is hoped that the app will be available in nearly half of the UK's neonatal units by early next year.
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