On the 23rd March 2020, the United Kingdom was put into lockdown following an increase in infection and death rates caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Hospitals in the UK had to make the difficult decision to significantly reduce the risk of spreading the disease. Therefore, parental and extended family access was reduced on some Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) across the UK. The NICU at the Rosie, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, is a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and accepts high-risk pregnancies and babies from the East of England Operational Delivery Network (ODN), likely to require neonatal intensive care. The NICU

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