Lifes Little Treaures are a Melbourne group of mothers who have experienced the roller coaster ride of N.I.C.U. & Special Care Nurseries, who would like to provide you with support and friendship. They provide morning tea’s at many different locations around Melbourne, quarterly newsletter, buddy program, parent information booklet and more.
I joined their committee this [...]

Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says decisions about whether to keep sick premature babies alive should not be “forced on” families by governments.
He said discussions about whether to treat premature babies who were unlikely to survive, or were likely to be seriously disabled, were already happening between clinicians and families.
But he said a potential overlap [...]

Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says decisions about whether to keep sick premature babies alive should not be “forced on” families by governments.
He said discussions about whether to treat premature babies who were unlikely to survive, or were likely to be seriously disabled, were already happening between clinicians and families.
But he said a potential overlap [...]

Australian researchers are melding mathematics with medicine to develop a computer program they hope will be able to predict whether a pregnant woman will give birth prematurely.
The scientists are studying hormone levels in blood samples provided by 500 pregnant women they believe are related to the timing of birth.
“We’re developing equations that describe how those [...]

Each parent will have their own unique experience of living with a premature baby. Some babies will go home on oxygen, need continuous special care and some will be re-admitted to hospital quite a few times in the first year of life because they are very septile to colds, flu and infections.
We have been very [...]

Babies born very prematurely have markedly less developed brains than those born at full term, a two-year Victorian study has revealed.
The study, which examined magnetic resonance images of premature babies’ brains and compared them with those of full-term infants, found that those born before 26 weeks gestation were at high risk of major brain development [...]