Watch, listen and learn – your baby is your teacher!
Positive, nurturing touch is important in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as premature babies often experience negative, painful touch by way of medical treatments. For an infant to interact socially, they must first be able to control their autonomic motor and behavioural state systems. Tactile [...]

Gosh where has the time gone? I can’t believe that Ronan will start pre-school next year! I am sure many parents are thinking the same thing but when you have a child who was born too early (13wks too early for us), fighting for life it is certainly something you don’t really think about when [...]

November marks a premature awareness month in countries around the world including groups here in Australia. March of Dimes in the USA hold an awareness day on November 17th just like Australia’s National Premmie Day. November 17th is dedicated to raising awareness of the crisis of premature birth. The March of Dimes invites bloggers to [...]

October was an exciting month for myself and Li’l Aussie Prems because we were featured on a great new show on channel 9 called “Money for Jam”. We filmed the show back in May so it felt like a lifetime of waiting but so worth the wait!
Each week all my friends and family were watching [...]

Ickle Kids specialises in Educational Toys and Travel Toys. As a mum of two young boys, Laine understands how difficult it can be to entertain kids on the move – in a car, on a plane, dining out at restaurants or even on a rainy day at home. Ickle Kids unique range of travel toys [...]

With thousands of premature babies born throughout Victoria yearly and in conjunction with National Premmie Day being celebrated on Friday 31st July 2009 three of Victoria’s amazing and dedicated support networks have joined together to help celebrate our little aussie battlers. All run by parents of premature babies themselves, Lifes Little Treasures, L’il Aussie Prems [...]