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 [...]

NDIANAPOLIS — Warning lights hover over the snoozing patients in Riley Hospital for Children’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 [...]

SHAELEY Moody is worth every second of her proud mum’s agonising wait.
After 18 years of trying to have a baby, encompassing four failed pregnancies and a horrific car accident, Tracy Moody, 40, still can’t believe it when she looks at her tiny, fragile daughter.
Shaeley was born 15 weeks premature and weighing less than 700g last [...]

Weebundles Hand Made Preemie Dolls
I have been speaking with the lady who makes the premature baby (preemie dolls) and what a lovely yet busy lady she is. Her preemie dolls are highly sought after not only in the USA but also here in Australia.
Weebundles Preemie dolls are made from 100% polyester fabric in five color [...]

THE Royal Children’s Hospital has given Stephanie and Michael Funke the best possible Christmas present.
Five-month-old Madeleine has made it out of hospital for the first time in her short life to spend Christmas with her family in Minyip.
Born a dangerous 14 weeks premature and rushed to Melbourne, Madeleine then suffered a perforated bowel.
Surgeons had to [...]

On my first day of full time, solo parenting I managed to clip the tip off of Miss E’s big toe while trying to trim her toenails—I’ve not touched baby nail clippers since that day. I think that was one of the first times I’d ever really felt like her mother. I’d made, what seemed [...]