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Neuroscience for the people at the cot side. Writing on regulation, trauma and lived experience, from Lottie King and the NICU Neuroscience faculty.

Frightening and violating. Sympathetic mobilisation and parasympathetic co-activation spike together, the blended freeze, and with no felt safety or co-regulator the system cannot settle or discharge.
Scaffolding the autonomic nervous system in maternity and neonatal care co-regulation maternity safety neonatal care nervous system informed care staff wellbeing trauma window of regulation Jul 07, 2026

A frightening event is not, on its own, a psychological injury. Whether it becomes one is decided by something else, and that something else is largely in our hands.

I have sat this last week or so w...

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Reframing Gut Feelings in Maternity and Neonatal Care as Data interoception maternity safety neonatal care nervous system informed care neuroscience parent experience Jun 23, 2026

First published by Lottie King on LinkedIn, June 2026.

When a parent says "something is wrong", what happens next tends to go one of two ways. Either the information is investigated, with testing, li...

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Lottie King

Founder of NICU Neuroscience and of Leo's Neonatal. Bereaved parent, and the person who wishes this training had existed when she was the one standing beside the cot.

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Occasional writing from Lottie on regulation, trauma and lived experience in neonatal and maternity care.