October was an exciting month for myself and Li’l Aussie Prems because we were featured on a great new show on channel 9 called “Money for Jam”. We filmed the show back in May so it felt like a lifetime of waiting but so worth the wait!
Each week all my friends and family were watching [...]

Eileen from Bracken Ridge, is a mum living in a busy world consumed with helping families of premature babies for the past 10 years throughout Queensland.
Eileen has been a committee member of Preterm Infants Parent Association (PIPA) since the birth of her first son, William was born 11 weeks early 12 years ago, now has [...]

Exploded! The forum saw over 400 members join in 2008 alone and on New Years eve we reached over 100,000 posts. It is truly an amazing effort on our members behalves and they have really turned the forum into a community over the past year.
When i started the forum almost 2 years ago it was [...]

Margaret Murphy began life about 18 weeks early weighing around 390 grams at St Margaret’s Hospital in Sydney. These days it’s still special, but not so unusual, for a prem baby to ‘make it’, but for Margaret, born September 19, 1909, it was and still is incredible.
“Wrapped in cotton wool inside a shoe-box, fed with [...]

This Friday is National Premmie Day!
Being apart of the premmie foundations committee we have been working on this day since last year and time certainly does fly! We have received A LOT of support from businesse, other parenting websites, the media and families which have all been fantastic.
Being a parent to a premature baby i [...]

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 [...]