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I just discovered that this week is Pre-Eclampsia Awareness Week.
I had never even heard of pre-eclampsia until a friend of mine told me it was the reason she needed to have her baby delivered 8 weeks early, four years ago. To be honest, at that time I didn’t have any idea what she had been […]

I love Talia’s NICU photos, looking back on them now. I wish I had more of them, and I really wish I had some video. I don’t think I realised at the time how important they would become, because when I was spending so much of every day in the nursery, I felt as though […]

My son was born at 27 weeks gestation due to preterm premature rupture of membranes and premature labour in March 2006. I am now pregnant with my second child and at present i am 25 weeks along and starting to feel very anxious due to my previous premature birth.
My pregnancy has been great although […]

Margaret Murphy began life about 18 weeks early weighing around 390 grams at St Margaret’s Hospital in Sydney. These days it’s still special, but not so unusual, for a prem baby to ‘make it’, but for Margaret, born September 19, 1909, it was and still is incredible.
“Wrapped in cotton wool inside a shoe-box, fed with […]