New York — New research suggests that doctors can cut the risk of cerebral palsy in half for very premature babies by giving their mothers magnesium sulfate just before they give birth.
In the government-funded study, researchers gave an infusion of magnesium sulfate to women about to give birth to a premature baby to see if [...]

I have attached one of the articles from todays local paper (Knox Leader). It explains about my Local Hero award and also about the work i have been doing to help parents and families of premature babies. The article also mentions about Lifes Little Treaures and the National Premmie Foundation who consist of many many [...]

I have been speaking with a very proud father of premature twins who were born at 22 weeks & 2 days gestation in 1997. Reading the story of Amy & Sophie was just amazing and just reading what their father wrote brought tears to my eyes. It is a journey of 2 premature baby [...]

You may remember me writing that I was nominated for “Volunteer of the Year” with my local council a few months ago. Well the award ceremony was held on Australia day and after having a lovely breakfast it was time to announce the award. They went through each nominee’s achievements and the other nominee’s were [...]

Happy Australia Day to all the premature babies around Australia. We hope that you and your families all celebrate the day with pride and thankfulness that your premature babies have been born safe into this great country and receiving the best medical care from our doctors and nurses in NICU.
To those premature babies who [...]

Well Ronan and i were photographed yesterday for an article that is coming out most likely next week in the local paper on behalf of Bonnie Babes and their “Pride of the Nation” project. The photographer was here for about 30 minutes and we took many different angles of poses. Ronan had a blast and [...]