BABYCARE PROGRAMME JUNE 2006

Sleepless Nights for Academy Girls

There were a few sleepless nights for some 3rd year girls at Stranraer Academy last weekend as the realcare baby programme ended with the “parenting weekend”. After 2 weeks of classes on topics such as contraception, budgeting, labour & delivery the girls then faced the unenviable task of taking the “babies” home for the weekend. The babies are programmed to behave just like a newborn baby and require to be cared for by their “new parent” whenever they cry.

The girls all did brilliantly and a few even ventured out to “fun days” and to the shops where the babies proved to be quite a talking point!

A big thank you goes to the whole team for helping make the programme so successful and of course to the girls for taking part.

For more information please contact Kirsty McKie, Health Improvement Officer, Wigtown LHP on 01776 706900.

Photo left to right: Jeanean Reid, Catherine Fell, Leza Calderwood, Chloe Rice, Becky Ironside, Kerry Hainey, Chloe Magee, Lori Wales