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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 [...]

AT 12.10pm, on December 13, 2003, I lay under an enormous operating light. Through tears welling in my eyes, I counted 12 people fussing. Nurses, anaesthetists, neonatal staff, obstetric team. Two teams: one for me, one for my baby.
When I looked at the intensive care cot being readied in the corner, I shook with [...]

Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says decisions about whether to keep sick premature babies alive should not be “forced on” families by governments.
He said discussions about whether to treat premature babies who were unlikely to survive, or were likely to be seriously disabled, were already happening between clinicians and families.
But he said a potential overlap [...]

Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says decisions about whether to keep sick premature babies alive should not be “forced on” families by governments.
He said discussions about whether to treat premature babies who were unlikely to survive, or were likely to be seriously disabled, were already happening between clinicians and families.
But he said a potential overlap [...]

Australian researchers are melding mathematics with medicine to develop a computer program they hope will be able to predict whether a pregnant woman will give birth prematurely.
The scientists are studying hormone levels in blood samples provided by 500 pregnant women they believe are related to the timing of birth.
“We’re developing equations that describe how those [...]