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95 days later
We celebrated a special family milestone this week: following 95 days in neonatal hospital care, our prematurely born daughter Talia passed her 95th day at home.
191 days before this milestone, I was a different person. Walking with blind faith through a seemingly ordinary first pregnancy, I knew nothing about prematurity, had never heard of CPAP ...
Family Living Interstate
Soon after we moved from Sydney to Melbourne i fell pregnant with our first baby. Ronan arrived 13 weeks early at 27 weeks gestation weighing 1140 grams. Ronan spent 110 days in hospital due to Chronic Lung Disease, PDA & a Hernia which was operated on 1 week before discharge.
With all my family living in ...
National Premmie Foundation
L'il Aussie Prems is a sponsor of the National Premmie Foundation which is being launched in October at the Pregnancy, Babies & Children's Expo here in Victoria. I am apart of the foundation as i am a committee member for Lifes Little Treasures who are just a beautiful group of women. I am creating the ...
Signing with a premmie
Before Erin was born my husband and I decided that we'd like to teach her to sign. We'd read that children who were taught to sign often speak earlier and have a wider vocabulary than children who were not. Parents also report that children who sign have fewer tantrums then their non-signing siblings. Now that ...
That’s Life Magazine
Myself and L'il Aussie Prems are going to be featured in issue 41 of That's Life Magazine 2007. I am so excited as the story is a little about our journey but also about LAP in the hope that more parents and families with premature babies will join the forum for the support and also ...
Jane Hansen – Every parent’s nightmare
AT 12.10pm, on December 13, 2003, I lay under an enormous operating light. Through tears welling in my eyes, I counted 12 people fussing. Nurses, anaesthetists, neonatal staff, obstetric team. Two teams: one for me, one for my baby.
When I looked at the intensive care cot being readied in the corner, I shook with ...