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 […]

When you have a premature baby, suddenly you find yourself in an unfamiliar hospital environment where staff talk about medical conditions you may never have heard of before. L’il Aussie Prems is pleased to bring you a series of short articles which aim to explain some of the conditions which affect premature babies. You […]

Last year was my first Mothers Day.
It felt much like any other day in the weeks before or after it - trekking in to the hospital, reading the chart to see how much Talia weighed and how much milk she’d been fed, watching the nurses take care of my baby. It was hard sometimes […]

By Andrew Exon
Infant Massage has found its own niche in the medical industry and it promotes healthy growth of premature and full-term infants. Low birth weight and bone mineralization are both common problems of premature infants that lead to many other related health complications.
Recent studies have found that regular infant massage performed by a […]

The National Premmie Foundation is holding National Premmie Day on Friday 25th July 2008. The theme will be an awareness week of RSV. The Foundation wants to put together a number of stories about prems, the risks of RSV and the effects it has on families. Would you be happy to let the Foundation […]

NDIANAPOLIS — Warning lights hover over the snoozing patients in Riley Hospital for Children’s neonatal intensive care unit, ready to flash whenever sound levels creep beyond normal conversation. As decibels rise, the colors on the new monitoring system change from green to yellow to red, hushing chatty parents or doctors so the babies get the […]

SHAELEY Moody is worth every second of her proud mum’s agonising wait.
After 18 years of trying to have a baby, encompassing four failed pregnancies and a horrific car accident, Tracy Moody, 40, still can’t believe it when she looks at her tiny, fragile daughter.
Shaeley was born 15 weeks premature and weighing less than 700g last […]

Weebundles Hand Made Preemie Dolls
I have been speaking with the lady who makes the premature baby (preemie dolls) and what a lovely yet busy lady she is. Her preemie dolls are highly sought after not only in the USA but also here in Australia.
Weebundles Preemie dolls are made from 100% polyester fabric in five color […]

THE Royal Children’s Hospital has given Stephanie and Michael Funke the best possible Christmas present.
Five-month-old Madeleine has made it out of hospital for the first time in her short life to spend Christmas with her family in Minyip.
Born a dangerous 14 weeks premature and rushed to Melbourne, Madeleine then suffered a perforated bowel.
Surgeons had to […]

On my first day of full time, solo parenting I managed to clip the tip off of Miss E’s big toe while trying to trim her toenails—I’ve not touched baby nail clippers since that day. I think that was one of the first times I’d ever really felt like her mother. I’d made, what seemed […]