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One unexpected thing about having a prem of my own - suddenly I discovered that prems were everywhere. A good friend I’d known for over 10 years told me for the first time that she had been born 3 months early. An older friend told me her strapping 26 year old had been born 10 weeks […]

Article from: The Sunday Times
Braden Quartermaine
October 13, 2007 05:00pm
Test cricket star Mike Hussey has told how he feared losing both his wife and premature daughter earlier this year.
Hussey spent yesterday bonding with five-month-old Molly, who is doing well after being born at 28 weeks and spending her first nine weeks in hospital.
Hussey, 32, of Subiaco, […]

Health authorities hope a new machine known as the Pea Pod will help premature babies get a better start in life.
The Australian-first machine, launched at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) on Wednesday, measures the body composition of premature and young babies, helping to identify potential long-term illness.
RBWH researcher Professor Paul Colditz said babies […]

What a tiring day i had today. I was an exhibitor at the expo in Melbourne representing the National Premmie Foundation.  We decided to officially launch the foundation at the expo as we had a chance to talk one on one to parents of premature babies and also family members who knew someone that has […]

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A MELBOURNE miracle has been billed Australia’s tiniest tot.
Little Elora was the length of a pen and weighed less than a juicy orange when she was born, almost five months prematurely, at the Royal Women’s Hospital.
Today, the tot is thriving on Mum’s milk, fed through a nasal tube.
From a 319g red, scrawny scrap […]

Article from:
A MELBOURNE miracle has been billed Australia’s tiniest tot.
Little Elora was the length of a pen and weighed less than a juicy orange when she was born, almost five months prematurely, at the Royal Women’s Hospital.
Today, the tot is thriving on Mum Adele’s milk, fed though a nasal tube.
From a red, scrawny […]

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 […]

I never realised just how emotional I was going to get about breast milk. 
I remember the obstetrician asking me if I planned to breastfeed, minutes after he had told me I might be having a baby at 26 weeks.  Yes, I replied sadly, assuming it would be impossible to produce milk under the circumstances, not […]

In one of my frequent searches of Google I found this article entitled Ambiguous loss of premature birth. It basically says that, while our babies may be a live there is still a grieving process associated with the loss of a healthy pregnancy and a full term baby.

When grief is related to loss of an […]

The other day I discovered the wonderfully cheeky League of Maternal Justice, committed “to expose the injustices perpetrated against mothers everywhere and to exact vengeance through aggressive finger-wagging and online shaming”.
Superhero Lactavista single handedly defends breast feeders with her super action nursing bra and double power breast pump, but what made me smile was the […]