Archive for August 2008

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Pre-Eclampsia Awareness Week

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 […]

Photographing and scrapbooking your NICU experience

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 […]

Premmie Parent ~ Pregnant Again..

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 […]

Premature Baby Born at 22 weeks in 1909

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 […]

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