Section management
Division management
Ward management
Deputy ward manager
Secretariat
Dear parents,
Your child will be spending the next few months with us on ward KK4. Despite the current circumstances, we hope that you will feel comfortable with us and that together we will contribute to your child's speedy recovery and good development.
You can contact us personally at any time. Please let us know your wishes, needs, worries and concerns.
Your KK4 team
Our ward specialises in the care of premature babies and sick newborns
General information
5 patient rooms (6 patients/room)
1 breastfeeding room
1 parents' room
Number of beds: 30, including 12 intensive monitoring units
Telephone station KK4: |
Room 1+2: 0731/500-57189 |
Room 3: 0731/500-57187 |
Room 4+5: 0731/500-57186 |
- Please announce your arrival via the intercom. The door will then be opened.
- Please wash and sanitise your hands in the entrance area. Please remove jewellery and watches.
- Lockers and a cloakroom are available for valuables and jackets.
- Please visit your child with a maximum of two people. This will allow us to create a calm atmosphere for your child.
- Relatives may only visit the ward if accompanied by a parent. Siblings are very welcome. This way they can also get to know their brother or sister. Please make sure that the children are completely healthy and have had no contact with children with typical childhood illnesses.
- It is very important to us to give you a good start to an intimate breastfeeding relationship. We are happy to call you when your child is awake and hungry. This allows the child to find its own rhythm.
- If your child is still too small and too weak to feed at the breast, you can express breast milk. You will receive sterile bottles from us into which you can fill your breast milk. Please label them with the date, time and name. Make sure that the cold chain is not interrupted. Breast milk can be kept refrigerated for 24 hours and frozen for 6 months.
- You can breastfeed or express in our breastfeeding room without being disturbed. Our breastfeeding and lactation counsellors (IBCLC) will be happy to help you with any questions you may have about breastfeeding and infant nutrition.
Breast milk is the optimal food for almost all infants in the first few months of life. Due to its unique nutrient composition, it has a clear advantage over artificial neonatal nutrition, especially for premature and sick newborns.
If the mother's own milk is not or not yet sufficiently available, it is recommended that infants, especially premature babies and sick newborns, are fed with quality-controlled donor milk.
We therefore opened a breast milk bank at the Ulm Children's Hospital in April 2019.
The aim of our women's milk bank is to temporarily supply donor milk to premature babies with low birth weight and sick newborns whose mothers cannot or cannot yet breastfeed at our paediatric clinic.
Modern and comprehensive examination and processing methods are necessary to prevent the transmission of infections via donated breast milk.
Since 2023, we have also been accepting mothers as donors whose children are not undergoing inpatient treatment with us.
If you have any questions, please contact the team at the Frauenmilchbank Ulm
Medical management:
Senior physician Dr Stefanie Baranowski
Senior physician Dr Lisa Schiefele
Contact:
Mail:frauenmilchbank.neo@uniklinik-ulm.de
Phone: 0731-500 57 238
Monday 9.00-13.00
Tuesday 9.00-12.30
Wednesday 13.00 -17.00
Thursday 9.00-12.30
Friday 9.00-13.30
Outside these hours for urgent matters: Phone: 0731-500 57 189
- We gradually involve you in the care of your child so that you are well prepared at home.
- Children are usually cared for in a 4-hour (=6 meals) or 3-hour (=8 meals) rhythm.
Our care rounds
- 6 meals: 7.00 / 11.00 / 15.00 / 19.00 / 23.00 / 3.00 a.m.
- 8 meals: 9.00 / 12.00 / 15.00 / 18.00 / 21.00 / 24.00 / 3.00 / 6.00 a.m.
- Of course you can also breastfeed your child at night.
- Children who were born premature or critically ill are offered follow-up care at home after discharge by a paediatric nurse, supported by an interdisciplinary team. In this way, the transition to everyday life can be supported.
- Link to aftercare
- Mrs Mathilde Maier, 1st chairwoman of our Förderkreis für intensivpflegebedürftige Kinder Ulm e.V., can be reached every Friday afternoon on our ward.
- You can take part in the breastfeeding café on Wednesdays at 2.00 pm.
- The sibling care centre is located in the Hartmut-Blauw-Elternhaus in Pritzwitzstraße.
- Parents travelling long distances have the option of staying in one of the parent houses.
- Our psychologist, Mrs Iris Merbeler, is available on request: Tel: 0731/500-57227.
- You can reach our clinic counsellor, Mrs Rachel Rau, on Tel: 0731/50069285.
Stay on the KK4
Together with you, dear parents, we would like to actively ensure the best possible development of your children. To this end, we particularly want to address any fears and concerns that parents may have. We promote a close parent-child relationship from the very beginning. Early on, we encourage parents to touch and stroke their child.
Through close skin contact (e.g. kangarooing), the child experiences warmth and security and it also promotes milk production.
We support parents in recognising their child's needs and learning how to deal with them. We involve parents in the care of their child on a situational basis. When they feel confident, they take over the care independently. In this way, the little patient receives individualised care.
- We support optimal limited positioning with positioning cushions (nest positioning) and hammocks
- Dimming the light, bright light is avoided, the incubators are covered with cloths to create a calming, cosy atmosphere
- Regulation of the noise level (noise traffic light) in the environment
- Compliance with the children's rest breaks
- Unrestricted visiting time for parents (except for handover time and visits from other children)
- Siblings are welcome at any time, provided they have received the usual vaccinations and are free of infections
Breastfeeding
Our aim is for you to be able to feed or breastfeed your child as fully as possible with breast milk. We try to promote milk production through early pumping, attempts at breastfeeding and plenty of skin contact.
Interested mothers can find out more about breastfeeding at our weekly breastfeeding training sessions, where we show breastfeeding positions, discuss how to use breastfeeding aids, breastfeeding problems and correct latch-on. In addition, every mum who wants to breastfeed receives a breastfeeding folder with important information.
There is also a weekly breastfeeding café on our ward. Breastfeeding mothers and pregnant women who want to prepare for a good start to breastfeeding are welcome here. Experiences are exchanged and breastfeeding problems are discussed in a cosy atmosphere. Mothers are encouraged in their desire to breastfeed.
Dismissal
Specially trained staff will prepare you for your imminent discharge. This is done in individualised instructions and discussions.
We also offer group discharge training sessions. Here you will receive tips, your questions will be answered and you will have the opportunity to learn general information about nutrition, weight gain, medication, vaccinations and preventative measures (e.g. avoiding sudden infant death syndrome).
In group discussions you may learn a lot of new things that you have not yet thought about and are then prepared for the new situation at home.
Some children still require supportive equipment (e.g. for monitoring) at the time of discharge. If your child is discharged with equipment, you will receive instructions on the equipment and resuscitation prior to discharge.