One in seven UK mothers barred from seeing sick babies due to Covid-19 restrictions, preemie charity finds

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Coronavirus health restrictions have severely curtailed the time UK mothers are allowed to spend with their hospitalized babies, impeding bonding and possibly worsening health outcomes, a premature infants’ charity has found.

Some 14 percent of parents with sick and premature babies have been prevented from staying at their newborns’ bedside by Covid-19 regulations adopted haphazardly by the National Health Service, according to a recent survey by premature babies’ charity Bliss, cited by the Mail on Sunday.

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