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23 Jun, 2023

Katy, Stewart and Ted’s story

We were looking forward to the birth of our son so much. We had planned for what we thought was every eventuality, we had been to some awesome antenatal and hypnobirthing classes and felt confident and positive.   Stoke Mandeville were monitoring us closely as Ted’s ‘due date’ was the 22nd May and we were […]

8 Jun, 2023

Summer fun day

Join us on the 23rd July at Aylesbury Rugby and Football Club for the BURPS Family Fun Day! The event will bring together those with a connection to the unit for food, music, games and fundraising.

3 May, 2023

London Marathon thank you

A massive thank you and well done to Mike Spencer for running the London marathon for Burps this year – he raised an amazing £3,085.25 including Gift Aid! Mike’s son was born at 33 weeks and spent 2 weeks on the unit in 2018. Mike said “It was an amazing day! I pushed a bit […]

25 Apr, 2023

Nikki, Oliver and Spencer

After an uncomplicated pregnancy, it certainly was a shock to end up in the labour ward five weeks ahead of our due date. I hadn’t started maternity leave yet, and just that weekend my friends had thrown me a baby shower and we had gone to our first class of the NCT course. Thankfully, I […]

24 Apr, 2023

Tug of war and cake sale

Thank you to everyone who came and supported the tug of war, raffle and cake sales in safe sleep week – we raised £539.90 in total across the 2 events! It was great fun with some special guest appearances from tug of war team captains Simon Thomas, whose daughter was on the unit last year, […]