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 [...]

We have just introduced a new area on the forum for premmie parent diaries. They are similar to a blog but are kept on the forum so you can share with forum friends what has been happening with your premature baby. You can start threads on your premmie baby, premature birth, family life, your premmies [...]

IF all had gone to plan, Elora De Bondi would have celebrated her first birthday days ago.
Instead, the gutsy Melbourne toddler – born almost four months premature and weighing only 319g – reached that milestone in January.
Ever since doctors told mother Adele her only child had “no chance of being born alive”, Elora has been [...]

Lily, Ruby, Maddie and their mum Lucinda
Where was Lily born?
Lily was born at the John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle. I was transferred there from North Gosford Private once they realized there were complications. We also spent a week in the Childrens Hospital at Westmead while she underwent cardiac surgery for a Patent Ductus Arteriosus.
What was her [...]

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 [...]

Since she figured out solids at the end of last year, Talia has been fantastic, eating all sorts of homecooked meat and veg. She had started to catch up with her weight and all was going well… until now.
A week or maybe a little longer ago, she started objecting to receiving food on a [...]