48,000 babies are born premature or sick every year in Australia

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Life’s Little Treasures Foundation

We are Australia’s foremost charity dedicated to providing information, support and connection for families of sick and premature babies.

Whether it’s our NICU Connections support groups reducing isolation, care packages for overwhelmed parents, or financial assistance for those in need – we provide many products and services to help reduce the very real issues that affect these families.

Providing support when it’s needed most

Reducing isolation, providing information and delivering practical and emotional support is the essence of what we do.

Our team draws on the lived experience of having a baby born too soon or sick to help families on this life-changing journey.

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Join us at Walk for Prems – The Mighty Trek Challenge this October

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we’re building on our flagship Walk for Prems fundraiser by introducing The Mighty Trek Challenge to symbolise and raise awareness of the journey these families endure – physically, emotionally and psychologically.

To honour their strength, hope and resilience, we’ll be pushing ourselves to the limits by taking on an endurance challenge which will see us push an incubator 900km in 20 locations from Sydney to Melbourne. But no matter where you are, there’s a way to get involved and make a mighty impact!

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Our son was born weighing just 719 grams at 23 weeks gestation. He had a fighting spirit and remained in hospital for 184 days, enduring surgery and many other challenges over this time. Life’s Little Treasures were there every step of the way to support us and helped us connect with others going through a similar experience through their NICU Connections events. These events are run by their staff who have the lived experience and made us feel like we weren’t alone.

Thank you LLTF for all that you do – we are so grateful for the support you were able to provide during this very stressful time in our lives.

– Parents, Courtney & Rhys

Did you know?

48,000

babies are born premature or sick every year in Australia.

26,000

babies are born premature, or before 37 weeks gestation.

66%

of babies that start their journey in a neonatal unit are multiples, twins, triplets etc.

Some premature babies can weigh less than

1 kilogram

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