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Rachael Ashcroft
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Senior Sister in Gastro&Acute Medicine! Mama to Jack&Henry❤️ All views are my own! she/her
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Why do newborns get hepatitis B vaccine?

Because 90% of hepatitis B infections in kids become chronic hepatitis.
Because chronic hepatitis causes 60% of liver cancers.
Hepatitis B is NOT just sexually transmitted, it’s via ANY bodily fluids.
Infants get infected at birth or via family members.

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July 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Not a fan of early shifts, I’m too used to coming home&getting ready for bed! Been a loooong afternoon😴
July 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Nursery wondering why Henry won’t sleep independently…while we’re home contact napping, co-sleeping&breast feeding😂
March 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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March 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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One in 10 women and those assigned female at birth have endometriosis.

This #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth, explore our recent publication that provides guidance on recognising symptoms, information on care pathways and signposts to additional online resources. ➡️ buff.ly/Zddz65H
Square graphic with purple and blue colours. Text reads "On average, it takes over 8 years to get a diagnosis for endometriosis." #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth
March 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Struggling to keep my head above water at the moment🥴
a little girl is crying in a swimming pool while being held by a rope .
ALT: a little girl is crying in a swimming pool while being held by a rope .
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March 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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One of my nurses called me ‘Maam’ in an email🤢 How old am I??
February 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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End of annual leave anxiety mixed with a PMDD flare is not the cocktail I wanted🥴🥴
February 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Car passed his MOT🥳🥳 #gohank
February 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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PMDD is kicking my arse today🥴🥴
February 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Henry’s woken me up so much in the past few weeks, I now can’t sleep as I’m waiting for him to wake up🥴🥴🥴
February 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Dropping this little dude into nursery for a few hours so I can have a break&man alive the Mum guilt is hitting me hard😩
February 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Just had a 4hour stretch of sleep for the first time in 3weeks, it was beautiful👌🏻
February 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I had a couple of visitors at work today😍 #nurselife #seniorsister #gastronurse
February 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Big boys now down with HFM&Mum’s got her 2week wait gynae appt tomorrow, life is lifing at the mo🥴 #fml
February 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Just got my wedding dress bag&it gave me a huge flashback to covid body bags, same fabric, colour, got a plastic patch for a label🤢
February 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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HFM can piss right off😩
February 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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HFM can piss right off😩
February 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Working from Home as Henry has Hand, Foot&Mouth disease&already falling into the trap of checking my emails every other minute🥴 How do you switch off from work at home? #nurselife #gastrosister
February 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I have my wedding dress😍
February 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Henry got HFM for his 1st birthday, no returns label! #babyhenry
February 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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This time last year, we’d started being induced&my waters broken, where did time go? The week leading up to Henry’s birth was so fraught&worrying with being in hospital constantly, glad some of these firsts are out the way🥴
February 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Now is not the time insomnia😩
January 31, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Took a bay of patients yesterday for first time in a looong time&loved it❤️ #nurselife #gastrosister
January 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM