For any parent whose newborn requires hospital care, the hardest part is often not the medical reality — it is the fear of being separated from their child. A new unit inaugurated at the Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace on Thursday 26th March is designed to ensure that separation is no longer part of the experience.

Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene opened the new parent-child unit in the presence of Christophe Robino, Minister-Counsellor for Social Affairs and Health, Benoîte Rousseau de Sevelinges, Director of the CHPG, and Dmitry Rybolovlev, whose patronage made the project possible.

The unit comprises four rooms conceived as genuine family cocoons — spaces that feel as close to home as a hospital can offer — where parents can remain with their vulnerable or closely monitored newborns around the clock.

A multidisciplinary team of nursery nurses, midwives, childcare auxiliaries and doctors supports each family throughout their stay, combining medical excellence with an approach built on warmth and reassurance.

The unit is the latest addition to the CHPG’s mother-and-child centre, which has been expanding its family-focused care in recent years.

It follows Princess Charlene’s launch of infant first aid training workshops in September 2025, run in collaboration with the Monégasque Red Cross — part of a broader push at the hospital to place families, not just patients, at the centre of neonatal care.

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Photos credit: Michaël Alesi / Prince’s Palace