Thank you for being our friend ...................

February proved to be an excellent month for Pop N Grow and with the help of all you wonderful supporters we have managed to fill up a lot more of our totaliser, to cover all 209 neonatal units in the U.K we need to raise £21000 and with £5000 raised to date we are nearly a quarter of the way there xx

I have been neglecting the blog ......

I'm afraid I have been neglecting the blog lately, there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day anymore, what happened? Where does all the time go?

Time has flown for me over the past six months, six months ago I had just come home from the hospital with my precious little boy Oliver, all the worry and heartache of the previous couple of months was over and the future lay ahead of us.

Little did I know what the future would hold because you see this thing came along, this thing called Pop N Grow, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine where pressing the 'like' button on the Pop N Grow page was going to take me, that place has become a huge part of my life, it has bought me lots of new friends and some very very special friends at that.

It has given me the opportunity to give a little back to the people who helped us the most and I can try and make things a little better for babies like Oliver.

I'm not perfect, I don't pretend to be, my house is rather messy and my to do list is so long I fear I will have to live till I'm 120 to reach the end of it, may be I can't change the whole world in one go but do you know what it doesn't matter that there's dust on the shelf or that I forgot to pay my phone bill (sorry Orange!)  what matters is that with all my fellow Pop N Growers beside me we can do our best to change the world one grow at a time xx

The mystery of the baby in the box is solved .....

Pop and Grow are holding a Valentines auction on our main Facebook page next weekend the 17th to the 19th of February.

We are hoping to raise lots of money to fund lots of baby grows to keep babies warm and snug in special care.

To bid just go to our Facebook page and have a look through the auction album there are lots of lovely things from taggie blankets to cakes, from key rings to a not yet in the shops Le Crueset juicing jug!
Auction items album

Oliver, the star of the Facebook cute baby competition and South Wales local celebrity wants lots and lots of special care babies to have Pop N Grow baby grows, in fact he is so desperate to raise lots of money he dressed himself up as a teddy, climbed in a box and attempted to donate himself to the auction, unfortunately I had to refuse to take him to the post office as I would simply miss him far too much but I can't guarantee he wont try bribing the postman to take him down to the sorting office because he wants to see more items in the auction.

We are still accepting donations for the auction and if you would like to donate something please email a brief description of the item you are donating and a photo to pop.n.grow@gmail.com.

I don't want Oliver to donate himself to the auction so please help!

There you go Paula, the mystery of the baby in the box is solved, was it worth waiting for?

xx

What are you grateful for?

I'm quite new to blogging so I have been reading up about how to blog successfully and looking at what other bloggers blog about and one of the things that seems to be popular is lists, lists of things to acheive before your 30 or 40 or 50, of places you absolutely must visit, of foods you must try but the list I liked the best was a things to be grateful for list and it started me thinking about what I was grateful for so I've written my own list, some of the things are big, some of them are small, some things are obvious some aren't but anyway here it is, my list (in no particular order)

• My 3 beautiful boys
• My husband
• My home
• The staff at the Royal Gwent, Newport
• Beautiful sunsets
• Automatic washing machines
• Clean socks that actually match
• Chocolate
• More Chocolate!
• Paula, Alison, Becci and Anna my fellow Pop N Grow Admins.
• Warm sand under my feet
• Scampi flavoured fries
• The Internet
• Rainbows
• My childhood teddy bear (in fact all teddy bears, I love teddy bears more than chocolate)
• Every single one of the Pop N Grow supporters

I can't afford caviar and truffles but I can enjoy a bag of  my favourite scampi flavoured fries, I can't stop the rain but without the rain there would be no rainbows, I can't solve the problems of the world but one thing I can do is change things for neonatal babies, I can make them more comfortable and may be just may be I can make their parents lives just a tiny bit easier because once I was that parent, my baby was that baby, I look forward to the day when I can add one more thing to my list, when I can add this to my list

• That every baby in every neonatal unit in the U.K has access to a Pop N Grow baby grow, that every baby can be snug and warm.

because for that I will be truly grateful.

One Pop N Grow costs £4.73 if you would like to make a donation please visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pop.n.grow click on the donate tab towards the top left of the page and follow the on screen instructions, every penny counts.

It's G-Day at Pop N Grow

All at Pop N Grow are very very excited today as it is G-Day!  It is Grow Day, the day we have been working towards is finally here and the first boxes of  Pop N Grow baby grows will be going out to the local Reps ready to be delivered to the first 35 hospitals.

The hospitals due to get their grows are;

The locations of the first hospitals to receive grows

Raigmore Hospital, Inverness
Poole General Hospital.
St Richards Hospital, Chichester
Basingstoke Hospital
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
Leighton Hospital, Crewe, Cheshire
Hillingdon Hospital, Middlesex
Burnley Woman & Newborn Centre, Lancashire
Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Bucks
Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport
Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Bedfordshire
Southend University Hospital
Aberdeen
Ayrshire Maternity Unit, Crosshouse Hospital Kilmarnock
Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds
Nobles Hospital, Isle Of Man
Basildon Hospital
Hinchingbrooke, Cambs
Ipswich, Suffolk.
Gloucester Royal, Glouster
Croydon Universerty Hospital, Croydon, South London.
Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
Jessop Neonatal, Sheffield
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow, Essex
Liverpool Women's, Liverpool
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth
Hull Royal Infirmary
Southampton
Nottingham City Hosp And Queens Medical Centre
Altnagelvin Hospital, Londonderry. Northern Ireland
Dumfries And Galloway

The grows are ready to go!

The grows are been packed by Paula and Ali in the Isle of Wight and will be setting off on their journey later today.

We have only been able to do this because of all of the generous donations we have received from our supporters so thank you everyone.

Now it's time to look forward to the next batch of hospitals :0)

To make a donation please visit our Facebook page
Pop N Grow Facebook page and click on the donate tab.

Pop N Grow has Auction fever

The auction starts next Saturday 11th Feb

Two lovely ladies, Bev and Joanne are holding an auction on their Facebook page next weekend 11th to 12th of Feb

Bev is the local rep for Nobles Hospital on the Isle of Man and every penny raised from the auction will be going to fund Pop N Grow baby grows for special care babies.

There are some lovely items on offer, including a gorgeous knitted elephant, the sweetest little baby shoes, a lovely Hungry caterpillar dress and bib plus much more.


Just a small selection of the items due to be auctioned.

To see all that is on offer head over to Bev and Joannes Facebook page and have a browse but remember don't bid until next weekend.

Pop N Grow Nobles Hospital, Isle of Man you can find the auction items by clicking on the photos tab and then clicking on the auction album :o)

And the winner is .........

It's time to pick a winner of the Pop N Grow good news week goody bag and I've been experimenting with how to use video on the blog so we have a semi live winners draw, it's a bit like the The National Lottery but they have funky machines, a flashy studio and Scott Mills while I have a knitted reindeer hat, my living room and number one son!.
To find out if you are the winner, just watch the video (I'm afraid the sound is not great but it was our first go at video, we will get better with practice).

Congratulations to our winner, I will be in touch over the weekend to get your details :o)

Good news week comes to an end

Well it's Friday and it's the end of Pop N Grows good news week, I've really enjoyed reading your stories and sharing your good news.

We have time to share 3 more stories with you before Good news week comes to a close, several of you share stories of personal achievements, Kelly told us 'My good news is that after I had my baby 6 weeks ago I
was diagnosed with post natal depression, today I got up and saw my
other two beautiful boys off to school and for me that's something I
have been looking forward to doing for ages. Hopefully one day I will
be able to take them and pick them up but for now I'm proud of myself'
we wish you all the best for the future Kelly. And Emma told us 'my
good news is that I have survived going back to work after my lovely
six months off, I am a nurse and work 12hr days and was terrified about getting her ready, getting me ready and getting her to nursery and me into work for 7am. I imagined her crying and rubbing her eyes all the way to work for being woken up so early, turns out with a bit of planning the night before she's fine with it yay!! All those sleepless nights for nothing lol'

The last story is Pop N Grows you may have seen on the main page that we asked what you thought about us looking at supplying our grows in bigger sizes and also what you thought about us supplying incubator vests for tiny babies between 2 and 4lbs (to be supplied to hospitals free of charge of course) and the overwhelming response was positive so watch this space for developments very soon.

Don't forget to keep an eye out tomorrow for the announcement of the goodie bag winner xx

Pop N Grow Facebook page

Pop N Grow Good news - Reps special

You may or may not know that we have a hardworking group of local reps here at Pop N Grow, each one represents their local hospital, they are spread out across the country from Scotland to the South of England with many in between.

All of our reps work extremely hard fundraising and raising awareness of Pop N Grow so today it's a reps good news special.

Rep Teresa's good news is 'My son's school choir have got through to the finals of the Cheshire East Primary schools choir of the year competition which is to be held at the Royal Northern School of music. Some of them are as young as 7 and we are very proud of them and hope they have a fantastic day there.' Lovely news Teresa and we wish them the best of luck.


Rep Matt was happy that he had nearly scored a hole in one, what makes it special is it was Matt's first game of golf since having spinal surgery, well done Matt and better luck next time.

Rep Steph told us 'My happiness for today is waking up next to my little boy and seeing his first smile of the day and my other happiness is knowing that us reps are able do our work to make all those little babies happy'.

Thank you reps for doing such a good job your hard work, support and loyalty are what makes us all at Pop N Grow HQ smile.

Pop N Grow Facebook page

Today our good news starts with a birthday, Crystal told us that her son is going to be celebrating his 4th birthday on the 3rd February, that is an excellent day to have a birthday, but then I'm a little bit biased as that is my number 2 sons birthday too and he will be 6.
All at Pop N Grow wish your little boy a very happy birthday Crystal and we are drawing our goodie bag winner on Friday so who knows may be a little birthday luck may be in the air.

Did you read today's earlier blog post? If you have then you will know that one of our local reps is expecting a baby in August, one of our supporters Chery is also expecting the pitter patter of tiny feet and her good news was that she is expecting a 'healthy and perfect little girl' congratulations Chery.

Pop N Grow rep Helen has been working very very hard for Pop N Grow and her good news was 'I have a meeting tomorrow with Asda to try and secure funding for Pop'n'grow!' now that is excellent news.

Don't forget there is still time to share your own good news over on the main page and one lucky liker will win a goodie bag.

Pop N Grow Facebook main page

Please vote for Oliver

Please help Oliver to help Pop N Grow

Oliver was born prematurely and was cared for in the Special care baby unit of the Royal Gwent, Newport.  Now Oliver is trying to help Pop N Grow raise more money so that more hospitals can receive free Pop N Grow baby grows and more special care babies can be helped.

Oliver has entered a cute baby competition on Facebook and if he wins he will donate the baby hamper prize to Pop N Grow for their February auction.

If you use Facebook you can help Oliver by following this link VOTE FOR OLIVER and click like under Oliver's photo, the photo is the one on this post.

For more information about Pop N Grow please visit our main Facebook page Pop N Grow Facebook page or our website Pop N Grow website

Thank you xx

Pop N Grow is having a baby ........

It's good news week here at Pop N Grow and yesterday we heard the really lovely news that one of our local reps will be having a new addition to their family in August!

Big congratulations from all at Pop N Grow we are all very excited, can we all be virtual Aunties (and one virtual Uncle!)?

Did you know that the saddest day of the year is the Monday of the last full week in January? This year it was January 23rd, I can't say I noticed it being any sadder than any other day but there doesn't seem to be much good news around at the moment either.

So at Pop N Grow we are want to cheer everyone up and spread a little happiness with a week full of good news.
Over on our Facebook page our supporters have been sharing their good news stories,

Nicky told us that what made her happy was  'knowing my baby Freddy is now happy and healthy with his whole life ahead of him!' and that 'Being mummy to my incredible son who amazes me everyday and having a man in my life who loves us both unconditionally, and even helped save our babies life' is what makes her smile.

There are a few birthdays this week amoungst our supporters too, Alison told us 'It is my 35th birthday today the first birthday as a single Mum and it made me smile when I saw that my 14 month old son had scribbled under where my Mum wrote his name' and Viki's daughter is celebrating her 2nd birthday this week Viki says 'Waking up every morning to see the smile on my daughter Amelia's face. Looking forward to Wednesday when she celebrates her 2nd birthday'
Happy Birthday to Alison for yesterday and Amelia for tomorrow.

Lyn told us her good news was that 'I am just glad to be able to support the pop n grow good works! such good work' and that is good news for us too, getting the Pop N Grow message out and keeping babies warm are our goals and knowing we have the support of so many people makes us happy and keeps us going.

Thank you all xx

Oliver's story

Oliver

'Normal' baby grows aren't always the easiest to get onto a baby, I remember my friend and I babysitting for my friends 4 month old Nephew and even though, between us, we had a fair few G.C.S.E's, several A levels and were just about to to graduate with honours degrees, the poppers on a baby grow very nearly defeated us, throw in canullas, feeding tubes and wires and the simple task of dressing your baby becomes a whole new challenge, even for the seasoned professional parent.

This time last year I was a Mum of 2 boys and was just about to find out a third baby was on the way, I considered myself a seasoned professional parent, I'd changed hundreds of nappies, perfected the art of dressing a baby without really thinking about it and poppers were now a doddle, never in a million years did I imagine what I would be faced with in just a few months.

All was going well until I was 30 weeks pregnant and then it all went wrong when my waters broke, they did break in the hospital car park which was handy but little did we know we were getting on a 5 week emotional rollercoaster ride with an uncertain end.

I had to have steroid injections to give Oliver’s lungs a boost as the Dr’s expected him to arrive within 48hrs however Oliver had other ideas and thankfully stayed put.

Then followed 5 weeks that pretty much followed the pattern of; home from hospital, waters break, back in hospital, home from hospital, waters break, back in hospital etc etc until I reached 35wks, the doctors decided enough was enough and issued Oliver with an eviction notice, Oliver, however, had a few more tricks up his sleeve and decided that turning from head down to breech to transverse on a regular basis would confuse the doctors and having heartbeat decelerations would scare everyone half to death, he then threw in a major heartbeat deceleration which had the alarms going off, staff running in from every direction and Mummy heading off down the corridor for an emergency c section.

We thank every lucky star in the sky that Oliver arrived safe and well, he had to go to the special care baby unit (SCBU) for one night before being put on what they call transitional care, this meant he was allowed to stay on the ward with me for most of the day but going up to SCBU every 6 hours for monitoring and to be given his intravenous antibiotics.

The first day of Oliver's life are rather hazy, I wasn't well enough to do anything for him so the midwives looked after him, when I first saw him in his plastic 'bubble' crib he had been dressed by the midwife but his canulla, tubes and splint meant one arm was in and one arm was out of his babygrow, he looked so uncomfortable, later in the day a babygrow with a sleeve big enough to get on properly was found but I was terrified of catching his canulla while dressing him and we soon went back to one arm in and one arm out.

I really wish we had had access to a Pop N Grow babygrow in the hospital, it would have made things just a little better, Oliver would have been comfortable and that would have meant a lot.

Fast forward to today and Oliver is one day off being 5 months old, the memories of last summer are still with us but Oliver is doing great, he is such a happy baby you would never guess the start to his life had been such a rocky road.

So I would just like to say thank you to all the staff at the Royal Gwent hospital, Newport you are amazing people who do an amazing job in difficult circumstances, by being involved with Pop N Grow I hope I can help other parents and babies who are facing difficult times, I am trying to give a little back to the people who gave us so much.

*** Oliver is doing his bit for Pop N Grow by entering a cute baby competion, if he wins he will be donating the baby gift hamper prize to Pop N Grow for their February auction, to vote for Oliver please follow this link  Vote for Oliver  and click 'like' under Oliver's photo, Thank you ***

Pop N Grow website
Pop N Grow Facebook page

What can you buy for £4.73?

The answer is not an awful lot nowadays! Gone are the days when my £1 pocket money would last a week, I am a child of the 80's and I remember when I could go to the corner shop to buy penny sweets and the ice cream man sold a '10p special' which was a ice cream cone with a strawberry ice lolly stuck in the top, now you would be lucky to get an empty cone for 10p.

I read an article the other day comparing prices in 1960 to today, it made interesting reading, in 1960 £4.73 would buy you;
104 loaves of white bread, 157 pints of milk, 94 litres of petrol, 78 portions of fish and chips or 2 barbie dolls
whereas now now you would only get 5 loaves of bread, 10 pints of milk, 3 litres of petrol, 1 portion of fish and chips or just half of the cheapest barbie doll.

I doesn't seem like you can a lot for a fiver now but you might be surprised to learn that £4.73 is the price of 1 Pop n Grow baby grow, £4,73 can help to keep a special care baby warm, £4.73 might not seem a lot but to those babies and their parents it is priceless.

So thank you to all of our supporters, we appreciate every single penny that is donated and all of your help in spreading the word about Pop N Grow :o)

For more information on Pop N Grow or if you would like to make a donation please visit our Facebook page or our website
Pop N Grow Facebook page
Pop N Grow website

Dydd Santes Dwynwen hapus ..........

That's Happy St Dwynwen's day to non Welsh speakers.

St Dwynwen is the Welsh patron saint of lovers, which makes her the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine and today is her day.

Dwynwen lived during the 5th century and there are few  versions of her story but I'm going to go with this one........

Dwynwen fell in love with a prince called Maelon Dafodrill, but unfortunately her father had already arranged that she should marry someone else. Dwynwen was so upset that she could not marry Maelon that she begged God to make her forget him. After falling asleep, Dwynwen was visited by an angel, who appeared carrying a sweet potion designed to erase all memory of Maelon and turn him into a block of ice. God then gave three wishes to Dwynwen. Her first wish was that Maelon be thawed; her second that God meet the hopes and dreams of true lovers; and third, that she should never marry.

Not quite the happy ending we were all hoping for is it! But in her 3 wishes Dwynwen did a selfless thing, wishing for the benefit of others, for Maelon, who I'm sure was very glad to be unfrozen and for all the people out there in the world to have their hopes and dreams fulfilled.

So Happy St Dwynwen's day to you all and especially all the special care babies out there, my one wish is for them all, whether still in hospital or back at home, to be happy and to be loved  xx

It's the year of the Dragon

Today is the first day of The Chinese New Year, the Chinese zodiac is based on 12 animals, the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig and this year it's the year of the Dragon. People born in the year of the Dragon are energetic, warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky and natural born leaders.

Bob, the Pop N Grow Dragon, predicts an excellent
year for Pop N Grow.

I was born in the year of the Tiger, apparently I am lucky, brave, competitive, unpredictable, stubborn and obstinate, some who know me might agree with the first 4, nearly all who know me would definitely agree with the last 2!

My little boy Oliver was born in 2011, the year of the Rabbit and Rabbits are fragile just as Oliver was fragile when he was born, he didn't get the best start to life and spent his first night in the special care baby unit of the Royal Gwent hospital in Newport but Rabbits are also determined, resilient and strong and I have to say I tend to agree, he went through more in the early days of his life than some will go through in a lifetime but the future is bright and whether you believe in astrology or not my little determined, strong and resilient rabbit is doing great.

The Dragon is the symbol of good fortune and marks progression and perseverance, lets hope the dragon brings good fortune for Pop N Grow and all special care babies in 2012.

Happy Chinese New Year

Show your support with the Pop N Grow wristbands .....

Pop N Grow wristbands

Now you can show the world that you support Pop N Grow with these fab and funky wristbands, they are skinny style and come in gorgeous green or perfect purple.

To get one just head over to the Pop N Grow facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Pop.N.Grow#!/Pop.N.Grow

The wristbands cost £1.50 each including postage so where ever you are you can spread the word and help to keep neonatal babies warm.

I never noticed that ...

It's funny how we don't always notice something or realise something until it actually becomes a part of our lives, like when you buy a new car, suddenly it seems every other car on the road is the same as yours, same make, same model, same colour, of course there hasn't suddenly been a huge invasion of identical cars it's just you never noticed them before, never realised there were so many already out there.

This kind of realisation happened to me not so long ago, but not with a car, for me it was a song, it's from a few years back but some of you may know it, Wires by Athlete, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uriGngTXyrE I've heard this song so many times, I've hummed along to it on the radio but I never really paid attention to the lyrics and didn't realise that the song is about a baby in special care and the lyrics describe lead singer Joel Pott's feelings about his baby daughter who was born prematurely. The lyrics are beautiful and will strike a chord with many parents who have been in the same position as Joel Potts.

It also got me thinking about how much I actually knew about special care babies before I became Mum to a premature baby, the answer is not a lot, I knew about special care baby units and had read numerous magazine/newpaper articles on the subject but until I was there faced with the reality I didn't realise that the things that seem straight forward and easy suddenly become huge and difficult, the simple task of dressing your baby is not so simple if you have to juggle wires and tubes and you're worrying about hurting your precious baby because they have a cannula in their hand.

This is why Pop N Grow is such a wonderful idea, it makes something just a little bit easier, for parents and for the Neonatal medical staff, but for Pop N Grow to go from strength to strength people need to be aware that we exist, to 'notice' us and to pass on the message.
If you would like to help us spread the word please share our facebook fan page and help make life a little better for Special care babies.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2308275876489.2134084.1537083337&type=3#!/Pop.N.Grow

Anna is off to a flying start

Pop N Grow supporter Anna Andrew is off to a flying start with her weight loss challenge, she had her first weigh in yesterday and has lost an amazing 3lb in her first week, that leaves her with 11lb to lose in 6 weeks.

There is still time to sponser Anna, just pop over to her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/349346608413360/

Anna's weight loss challenge

Anna Andrews is aiming to lose lbs to raise £'s for Pop N Grow.

Mum of 3 Anna will be joining Weightwatchers and hitting the Wii fit board in her bid to lose 14lbs in just 7 weeks and raise much needed funds for Pop N Grow.

"Paula (founder of Pop N Grow) is such an inspiration" says Anna " What Pop N Grow are aiming to do is soooo achievable, but they need lots of support and all important funding. So, it is for them I am doing this"

Anna is looking for people to sponsor her weight loss either by offering a total amount (E.G £5 in total) or an amount per lb lost (E.G 50p per lb lost), any amount, big or small will be much appreciated and will go towards funding Pop N Grow baby grows for Special Care babies across the U.K.

If you would like to sponsor Anna please head over to her event page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/349346608413360/your
and leave your pledge in the message box - money will be collected at the end of the event when the challenge has been successfully completed!

Good Luck Anna we know you can do it!

Anna also has a blog where you can follow her progress http://annasweightlosschallenge.blogspot.com/

Introducing the Pop N Grow baby Grow .......

The Pop N Grow baby grows are specially designed to allow nursing staff to attend to special care baby's needs.The sleeves are larger than a normal baby grow, which allows it to be slipped over the arm and any bandaging due to canulas or any other medical tubing.There are also poppers along the shoulders to allow ease of access and a specially designed 'mitten foot' to allow access to the babies feet without having to take the baby grow off.Reaction to this new style of design has been 100% positive and requests for stocks of the baby grows are coming in thick and fast.

How it all Started ........

On 19th September 2011, Paula Smith, from East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Amelia.

Due to complications, Paula had the agony of seeing her baby moved to the hospitals neonatal Intensive care unit (NICU). But, instead of allowing this awful situation break her, she came up with a plan to help new babies, new parents and nursing staff too.

During Amelia's stay in N.I.C.U, when all she wanted to do was hold and comfort her baby, Paula could only sit by Amelia and watch her sleep "...She had to have a cannula in her hand, and a rather large bandage to keep it in place, as well as a feeding tube in her nose." Paula explains. "When I first saw her with all the tubes and machines attached, my gut instinct was to pick her up and run away. My precious baby was so poorly and there was nothing I could do to fix her."

Countless parents will understand the helplessness that Paula felt, Paula continues "It was while I was watching Amelia sleeping that I realised how scary it all looked. The baby grow she had on was only done up to her chest and the arm of the baby-grow was flopped by the side of her, as the sleeves weren't big enough to cover the bandage.

I thought, with a few adjustments and some simple poppers placed along the top of the sleeves, a new design of baby-grow, specifically created for babies in special care units, would make life so much easier, not only for parents, but for nursing staff too."

Returning home from the hospital, Paula asked her dear friend Alison Wright if she could help create a few poppered baby grows for the local hospital, Alison came up with the design and the Pop N Grow baby grow was born.

Now, Paula and Alison, with the help of a growing group of volunteers and supporters are aiming to supply special care units around the UK with these new baby grows totally free of charge.

With a simple idea, a good friend, bundles of creativity and lots of determination, Pop N Grow has come a long way in a very short time

Welcome to Pop N Grow

Come in, sit down and enjoy a virtual cup of tea and biscuit with the volunteers at Pop N Grow.

So who are we and what do we do?
Well in a nutshell, Pop 'n' Grow is a not-for-profit organisation run by volunteers and whose aim is to supply every Neonatal intensive care unit (N.I.C.U) and special care baby unit (S.C.B.U) in the U.K with specially designed baby-grows totally free of charge. The baby grows are designed to make dressing babies with canulas and or tubing easier and to make it easier and quicker for nursing staff to carry out treatments.

Of course to achieve our goal we need to raise awareness and raise funds and that is what this blog aims to do, I'll be blogging about the latest Pop N Grow news and fundraising events as well as news about our supporters.

If you have any ideas about what you would like to see here let me know, just leave a comment under a post.