I just discovered that this week is Pre-Eclampsia Awareness Week.
I had never even heard of pre-eclampsia until a friend of mine told me it was the reason she needed to have her baby delivered 8 weeks early, four years ago. To be honest, at that time I didn’t have any idea what she had been [...]

LUKE Shah is only five, but he’s set to help thousands of premature babies.
Born almost three months early, Luke is one of 138 Victorian children whose brains were scanned as newborns as part of a world-first study.
Six years into the project, researchers from Melbourne’s Howard Florey Institute are now sending their subjects, including Luke, back [...]

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 [...]

Premature baby girls appear to get greater benefit from breastfeeding compared than premature baby boys, according to new research.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the United States tracked a group of premature infants in Argentina to gauge the protective effect of breastfeeding against respiratory infections in babies.
The results of their research are published in this [...]

Cuddling up against their mother’s bare skin can help babies born as early as 28 weeks recover more quickly from the painful medical procedures, a new research suggests.
According to the Canadian study, very premature babies benefit from skin to skin contact with their parents. Writing in the journal BMC Pediatrics, the McGill University team said [...]

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 [...]