Well we finally had our little boy! I made it to 36+6 weeks. It was an amazing achievement considering i thought so many times that i was going to have another premature baby. What an experience it was this time around, just everything about the pregnancy even though i was considered high risk.
I faced the [...]

Some parents read aloud to their baby in the NICU. It is the sound of the parent’s voice and not the subject matter that is important, so you can read anything you like. The nurses at KEMH told me about one father who read his premature son “The Silence of the Lambs”! My husband and [...]

Our premmie forum has become one of Australia’s busiest support communities for premature babies families & friends. Our forum has a member base of over 630 members from Australia and beyond so you can be sure to find other premmie parents in your state or even parents who had their premmie babies at the same [...]

Well here i am at 32 weeks pregnant! I cannot believe that i am still pregnant after having such an early premature birth with Ronan.
A lot of things have been happening including still going to my high risk clinic appointments at Monash every 2 weeks and we actually found out the reason WHY Ronan came [...]

Father’s Day: the media is full of images of happy, healthy children rushing to give their much-loved if slightly hopeless father a blokey gift, but when your little one is still in hospital the stereotypes are meaningless and all you really want is to have your child come home.
What is the role of a father [...]

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 [...]