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		<title>Pre-Eclampsia Awareness Week</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/08/pre-eclampsia-awareness-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finisterre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Premmie Baby Health Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HELLP syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newborn babies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-eclampsia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premature Babies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t have any idea what she had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luke Shah&#8217;s a hero as scientists understand the premature brain</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/06/luke-shahs-a-hero-as-scientists-understand-the-premature-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lilronan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premature Babies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LUKE Shah is only five, but he&#8217;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&#8217;s Howard Florey Institute are now sending their subjects, including Luke, back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premmie Baby Health</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/06/premmie-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lilronan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[L'il Aussie Prems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NICU Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premmie Baby Health Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premature girls get more from breast milk</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/06/premature-girls-get-more-from-breast-milk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/06/premature-girls-get-more-from-breast-milk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lilronan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feeding (premature babies)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premature Babies Need Cuddles</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/05/premature-babies-need-cuddles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/05/premature-babies-need-cuddles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 06:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lilronan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premmie Baby Health Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cuddling up against their mother&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premmie RSV Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/03/premmie-rsv-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lilronan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NICU Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premature Babies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sound Monitors Protect Premature Babies</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/03/sound-monitors-protect-premature-babies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/03/sound-monitors-protect-premature-babies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lilronan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NICU Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NDIANAPOLIS &#8212; Warning lights hover over the snoozing patients in Riley Hospital for Children&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2008/02/148/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 


The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute development board invites you and your family to Discovery Day a family picnic day hosted by our patron Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE in her beautiful gardens at Cruden Farm.
Sunday 24 February 2008 10am &#8211; 3pm
 Tickets
$40 for adults, all children free. LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE. The event will go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Premature Babies Breathe Easier</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2007/11/helping-premature-babies-breathe-easier/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2007/11/helping-premature-babies-breathe-easier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lilronan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Premature Babies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was forwarded a link to the Australian Synchrotron Science about a case study being performed by ~ The University of Queensland. 
This is the information they provided on their website:
We need a layer of natural lung surfactant NLS that is just 1 molecule thick to breathe. Premature babies lack NLS.

Animal-based and synthetic alternatives are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coping post NICU</title>
		<link>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2007/10/coping-post-nicu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/blogs/2007/10/coping-post-nicu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Le Bec</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Premmie Baby Health Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I rode the lift to the fifth floor just as I had every day for the first 148 days of my child’s life. This time however, was different. We were going back. Only for a follow up appointment but the squirming, uneasy sensation in my stomach and my sweaty palms didn’t seem to know that.
My [...]]]></description>
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