{"id":8319,"date":"2020-10-13T13:21:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T02:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2021-03-25T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T01:28:32","slug":"introducing-baby-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/introducing-baby-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Baby Chat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introducing Baby Chat! The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital&#8217;s (RCH) newest virtual health program helping our smallest patients to feel at home and hear the voices of their parents and siblings, while being cared for in our Newborn Intensive Care Unit.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8321 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2020\/10\/EXT_8387-280x280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2020\/10\/EXT_8387-280x280.png 280w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2020\/10\/EXT_8387-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2020\/10\/EXT_8387-560x560.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2020\/10\/EXT_8387.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six-week-old, Arthur, and his family were some of the first to test out Baby Chat, when the family recently celebrated older brother Oliver\u2019s ninth birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur was born with oesophageal atresia, meaning his oesophagus didn\u2019t meet his stomach, and needed surgery soon after birth at the RCH. Although this meant Arthur\u2019s three older brothers had to wait patiently for six weeks before meeting their brother, Baby Chat has helped the family to connect and celebrate special moments together during this time.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur\u2019s mum, Genevieve said \u201cHaving Arthur with us through Baby Chat to celebrate Oliver\u2019s ninth birthday was so special for him, and for us too as we didn\u2019t want to leave Oliver on his birthday, but we also didn\u2019t want to be away from Arthur. It\u2019s something we\u2019ll cherish forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Baby Chat! The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital&#8217;s (RCH) newest virtual health program helping our smallest patients to feel at home and hear the voices of their parents and siblings, while being cared for in our Newborn Intensive Care Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":8320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions\/8322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}