Neonatal Unit - Royal Alexandra Hospital Paisley

24/11/2025

We’re delighted to announce that the RAH Neonatal Unit has opened for recruitment to the neoGASTRIC TRIAL! This important study will help answer a key question in neonatal care, and we’re proud to be part of an international effort to improve outcomes for the tiniest patients.

17/11/2025

💜 World Prematurity Day 💜

17/11/2025

💜 World Prematurity Day 💜

Today in the unit we celebrated world prematurity day with all of our little NICU superstars and their families!

A massive thank you to Amanda from ‘Baby Sensory Inverclyde/Renfrewshire’ for volunteering to come into the unit today and provide the babies with their first ever baby sensory class 🥰

Also a big thank you to Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity for providing gift bags for the babies and cupcakes for families ❤️

Lastly a special thank you to Lisa our Nursery Nurse who organised our world prematurity day celebrations and made the day a big success for our neonatal families 🫶🏼

We also hope that all of our NICU graduates enjoyed celebrating this special day at home with family.

16/11/2025

🎈 Happy 1st Birthday Micah! 🎈

Our amazing NICU superstar Micah has just celebrated his big first birthday with friends and family, and mum Donna has shared a very special update 💙

“Hi!! Just wanted to send some pictures of Micah who turned 1yr old on Friday 14th!
Micah was born in the Queen Elizabeth at 28+6weeks weighing 2lbs 11. He spent a week in the QE then moved to RAH where he spent the next 7weeks 😊 despite his tough start he is thriving now and we couldn't feel more lucky and proud everyday 🥰 the amazing care and attention from all the staff will never be forgotten with a core memory of coming in on Christmas Day to Micah being in a cot will remain with us forever!much love to all 🥰🥰and kisses from Micah ❤️xx”

We have loved hearing this update and want to wish Micah a big happy first birthday! 🥳 Micah looks so handsome in his birthday outfit! We hope that you have all had the best time celebrating and are so excited for Micah to spend his first Christmas at home with family! 🎉🫶🏼

16/11/2025

🥳 Happy 1st Birthday Olivia! 🥳

On the 8th November NICU superstar Olivia celebrated her big first birthday with family and friends. Olivia’s mum Caitlin-Maire sent us this amazing update to share 🥰

“Olivia was born at the Royal Alexander Hospital at 35 weeks after a very long journey filled with worry weighing 3lbs 15 onz and spent 2 weeks at the Neonatal Unit where she was cared for by the amazing staff who looked after us and our family. Our girl is 1 and is absolutely thriving bet all odds in life always happy smiling and enjoying life we as a family are so proud of the beautiful young lady she’s become and are all so proud of her. She has brought so much light into our life’s. Olivia is one special girl. 🩷
Love from her mum ( also a premie graduate) xx”

On behalf of everyone at the RAH Neonatal unit happy birthday Olivia, we hope that you all had a great day celebrating and love to hear how much our little NICU graduates are thriving ❤️

31/10/2025

🎃Happy Halloween🎃

The staff at the RAH have been busy making memories and keepsakes to join in on the halloween spirit with families and babies on the unit🎃

From everyone at the RAH SCBU, we hope everyone has a wonderful halloween and gets lots of spooky surprises👻

05/10/2025

🎉 Happy 21st Birthday Andrew! 🎉

Andrew was born at 26weeks weighing 915g.

From everyone at the RAH Neonatal unit we want to wish Andrew a very big happy 21st birthday! We hope that you have had a great day celebrating with family and friends! 🥳

22/08/2025

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On behalf of the staff at Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, NHSGGC - PRM Neo Team & Neonatal Unit - Royal Alexandra Hospital Paisley we would like to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to join us at this years neonatal reunion 🎉 we hope you had as much fun as we did!! 🥰 It was such a special day and an absolute joy to see so many happy smiling faces and to see just how far some of our NICU superstar babies have come!! 🦸🏻‍♂️ 🦸‍♀️ a true inspiration and credit to all 💜
The day would not have been possible without the meticulous planning by the wonderful staff at the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity and Wonder World Glasgow. Credit to you all and again thank you!! 🤩 Amazing from start to finish!!

Thanks also to Bookbug and Office for Rare Conditions Glasgow for setting up stalls and providing advice and resources 📚

More pictures to follow 📸

20/08/2025

💙 Harris turns 1! 💙

Today NICU graduate Harris is celebrating his 1st birthday with family and friends 🎉

“We can't believe our boy is 1 on Wednesday. We celebrated Harris' birthday at the weekend and had the most amazing day. Born at 33 weeks on 20/8/24 weighing 3lbs 11oz. Harris was in the neonatal unit for a month before we finally got him home. It’s been a journey, but he is now thriving!
We are forever grateful to the RAH neonatal unit, which is staffed with real life angels. We wouldn't be here today without you all. Thank you!

Love Kristie, Rory & Harris x”

On behalf of everyone at the RAH Neonatal unit we want to wish Harris a very big happy first birthday! 🥳
We love to hear how well you are doing and you look so handsome in your birthday outfit! 🥰

20/08/2025

🩷 Isla & Sophia turn 1! 🩷

Yesterday gorgeous twins Isla and Sophia celebrated their big first birthday with family, friends and big brother Harris 🥳

Parents Kathleen & Christopher have shared a lovely update -

“Sophia and Isla were born on 19th August at 32 weeks after a routine scan where it was found Sophia had stopped growing. We were very lucky our twinnies were able to stay together in the RAH neonatal unit where they spent 4 weeks growing more and help with feeding.

We cannot thank the staff in the RAH enough while our girls were in. The staff are truly amazing.

The girls are doing absolutely amazing now and cannot be prouder.” ❤️

We absolutely love to hear updates like this and are so happy to hear how great the girls are doing. A massive happy birthday to Isla and Sophia from everyone at the RAH Neonatal unit, we hope that you all had an amazing weekend in the sun celebrating! 🥰