No one knows the NICU until they're in it. The beeps, the waiting, the love so enormous it has nowhere to go. The people around the parents want to help and mostly send nothing, because nothing feels right.
NICU Grounding Cards come as a deck of 20, or a pocket pack of ten, for mum, dad, birthing partner or parent. One side holds a short line to steady them. The other holds a simple practice they can do in the chair by the cot, in the car park, or at 3am at home. The practices take under two minutes and nobody on the ward would notice. The deck comes gift boxed, so you can send it even when you don't know what to say.
They were made by Bex, after her son was born twelve weeks early. A share of every sale goes to The NICU Space, a UK community interest company she volunteers with.
If you're the one in it
You don't have to wait for someone to send these.
The cards don't ask you to feel better. They give your hands and your feet something to do while the monitors do theirs. Pick one up when the alarm goes and your whole body braces. Pick one up in the car park before you go back in. Pick one up at home, weeks later, when you're back and not yet settled, because that part is real too and the deck was written for it.
They are not a treatment and they don't claim to be. They are plain words and two minute practices, written by someone who sat in that chair.
What's in the range
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NICU Grounding Cards, the full deck
£2220 cards plus an intro card. Affirmation on one side, practice on the other. Velvet touch stock, so it feels like holding someone's hand. Gift boxed. For the ward, and for the months after it.
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The pocket pack
£13Ten cards from the deck in an envelope, the ten written for the unit itself. Small enough to carry unseen. For the hospital bag and the weeks on the ward.
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The care package
£30The full deck with a rose quartz palm stone. Something to hold when there is nothing else to do.
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Affirmation prints, digital download
from £6Printable wall art, single prints or a set of three. For home, for families who are back but not yet settled.
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Gift wrap is £2.50 and a handwritten note can be added at checkout. Free UK delivery.