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NICU Cuddle Hearts coordinator Lisa Paget was excited to win a gold award for her project at the Selwyn Awards but when she was named as the overall category winner for the Community Volunteering award, she says she was “overwhelmed and extremely humbled”. She says that winning the award took the project to a whole new level and never in her wildest dreams did she imagine she would win the category. “I cannot stress enough,” Lisa says, “that the project could not have happened without the love, time and efforts of fellow Kiwis from throughout New Zealand.” People from as far as Pahia and Bluff have taken to sewing the cuddle hearts in aid of babies and families that spend time in the Christchurch Women’s
Hospital neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Cuddle Hearts are made from soft cotton material, sterilised, and initially placed with both the baby and the mother then swapped around so the baby can have the smell of its mother with it while in an incubator. The hearts provide comfort to the baby and help with bonding when the parents can’t be in the unit all the time. “It’s the toughest journey a family can go through,” Lisa says. “Seeing all those hearts in the incubators and cots shows they’re needed and that they’re working, giving comfort to families and that’s all that matters.” Getting the Cuddle Hearts idea into the hospital wasn’t easy but through Lisa’s determination
and passion and the dedication of the NICU’s physiotherapist meant her dream of helping vulnerable babies could come to fruition. Lisa experienced first hand how stressful it was to have a baby in NICU when her two nieces, twins, spent time there in Australia. When only one twin survived, Lisa decided then and there it would be her mission to help babies and their families when she returned to New Zealand. “It’s been such a successful project,” Lisa says. “Cuddle
Hearts is catering for the South Island’s sickest babies. Feedback from families who have experienced the hearts in the NICU unit has been “tremendous”. NICU Cuddle Hearts has changed people’s lives, and for Lisa and all her volunteer helpers, that’s what makes it worth it.
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NICU Cuddle Hearts coordinator Lisa Paget, pictured with her prestigious Community Volunteering award, says the project couldn’t happen without all the volunteers who make the hearts.