Your Child's Comfort

• The hospital can be frightening to young children and a familiar person or object from home can help ease the anxiety. Feel free to bring your child’s favorite blanket, toy, stuffed animal, or doll.
  
  
• Parents and grandparents or guardians are welcome 24 hours a day. One parent, guardian, or grandparent may stay overnight at your child’s bedside. Either a sleep chair will be provided or the window-seat in your child’s room becomes a bed. Please do not sleep in an empty hospital bed. Siblings may not stay overnight.
  
  
• Your child’s bed should remain a “safe haven” at all times. When possible, all potentially painful procedures will be done in the Treatment Room. Parents may accompany their child to the Treatment Room to help reduce their child’s anxiety.
  
  
• Your child may have an intravenous line (IV). The IV will be connected to an infusion pump. The pump ensures that your child receives the prescribed amount of IV fluid. The infusion pump may sound an alarm for a variety of reasons; please alert your nurse using the call button.