We celebrated a special family milestone this week: following 95 days in neonatal hospital care, our prematurely born daughter Talia passed her 95th day at home.
191 days before this milestone, I was a different person. Walking with blind faith through a seemingly ordinary first pregnancy, I knew nothing about prematurity, had never heard of CPAP [...]

Soon after we moved from Sydney to Melbourne i fell pregnant with our first baby. Ronan arrived 13 weeks early at 27 weeks gestation weighing 1140 grams. Ronan spent 110 days in hospital due to Chronic Lung Disease, PDA & a Hernia which was operated on 1 week before discharge.
With all my family living in [...]

L’il Aussie Prems is a sponsor of the National Premmie Foundation which is being launched in October at the Pregnancy, Babies & Children’s Expo here in Victoria. I am apart of the foundation as i am a committee member for Lifes Little Treasures who are just a beautiful group of women. I am creating the [...]

Before Erin was born my husband and I decided that we’d like to teach her to sign. We’d read that children who were taught to sign often speak earlier and have a wider vocabulary than children who were not. Parents also report that children who sign have fewer tantrums then their non-signing siblings. Now that [...]

Myself and L’il Aussie Prems are going to be featured in issue 41 of That’s Life Magazine 2007. I am so excited as the story is a little about our journey but also about LAP in the hope that more parents and families with premature babies will join the forum for the support and also [...]

AT 12.10pm, on December 13, 2003, I lay under an enormous operating light. Through tears welling in my eyes, I counted 12 people fussing. Nurses, anaesthetists, neonatal staff, obstetric team. Two teams: one for me, one for my baby.
When I looked at the intensive care cot being readied in the corner, I shook with [...]