National Premmie Foundation celebrates National Premmie Day with the Children’s Rose
Purchase a rose for yourself, as a gift for a family member or friend currently in the Neonatal Intensive care unit, or to support the work of the National Premmie Foundation. Then plant your rose and watch it flourish as it flowers and grows over [...]

PRESS RELEASE
From little things,
BIG THINGS GROW
The National Premmie Foundation announces the 3rd Annual National Premmie Day with celebrations occurring Australia wide for the births of our smallest and most vulnerable newborns.
Each year approximately 21,000 newborns are admitted to Special Care Nurseries and Intensive Care units across Australia. July 31 2009 is the day to celebrate [...]

Day 1 19/06/09
Tristan Riley arrived at 10:04am on the 19/06/09 at 34+3 weeks gestation.
Weighing in at a whooping 3090 grams (exactly twice Brendan’s weight) HC 33cms and L 50cms. Apgars of 6:6:8

Labour…
Stage 1: 7 hours
Stage 2: 34 mins
Stage 3: 7 mins
Admitted into SCN 3 (NICU)
Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Ventilated -
CPAP – until 6:15pm
Incubator at 6:30pm
One dose of Caffeine
One [...]

Sophie Smith is an inspirational mother. After enduring the enormous personal tragedy of losing her three sons who were born prematurely in 2006, she set out to honour their memory by running a half marathon. Her aim was to raise enough money to enable the Royal Women’s Hospital in Randwick to purchase a single life-saving [...]

In February 2009 nominations were open to find Australia’s first ever “local premmie heroes”. The awards were created by parents of premature babies as a way to pay tribute and thank the amazing Australian’s who volunteer their time supporting families after the birth of their premature children.
After many nominations and a hard task ahead we [...]

This is a powerful interview between Sophie Brown & Sophie Smith. Thank you to Peter from One to One Conversations for sharing this with us.
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INTERVIEWER: Sophie, thanks for joining us
SOPHIE: It’s a pleasure
INTERVIEWER: Now you have had an incredible life journey first of all, tell us when you fell pregnant with triplets.
SOPHIE: Well, in [...]