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It’s doubly hard with twins

It’s doubly challenging having twin prems. Mum Amy shares her story of her 30 week twins Ollie and Riley and how they got through serious complications, surgeries and separation. At just 6 weeks pregnant I went for my dating scan little beknown to me the shock I was in for,

Anakin’s Story

Our little treasure Anakin’s due date is this week, which is still an emotional time for us even 2 years on. He was born weighing just 1 kg at 30 weeks, miraculously surviving threatened miscarriages from 17 weeks and then my waters breaking at 23 weeks from Influenza A. After

Oh Crap! I’m Santa! A story of navigating the “most wonderful time of the year” from the last place you thought you’d be.

In 2016 I became pregnant to my first (& only) child who was due on 30 January 2017. Right from the very start we were made aware of complications and we really didn’t know what was going to happen. Romanticised by the pregnancy process we progressed through the weeks hoping

Jessica and Evanna’s Story

Sometime in July, 19 weeks pregnant, I woke to my 2 year old at 6am knowing she just wanted a cuddle I picked her up and took her to back to my bed. I sat her down and all of a sudden I felt water gush out of me, I

Indiana and Jackson’s Story

On the 2nd of May 2017 I had finished my shift at work, picked my daughter up from daycare and headed home. That night I went to bed early and at 9pm I awoke to find my bed wet. I brushed it off, changed my sheets and went back to

Josh’s Story

I thought I’d share my son’s story, he is exceptional in every manner of the word. Joshua Chester. Born 12 weeks premature @ 990g on 6/7/15. The NICU saw 2 infections, necrotizing enterocolitis, chronic lung disease, 4 blood transfusions, beginning stages of retinopathy, bicuspid aortic valve, enlarged aortic root, cardio

Nina’s Story

Hi, my name is Keira and our little treasure Nina was born 3 months early and spent 68 days in the neonatal ward at The Mercy hospital in Melbourne. She was on CPAP, high flow, low flow and finally spent a very long time fattening up (in the “Fat Farm”!)

Lincoln

Lincoln entered the world feet first on on 30 June 2013. Mum’s waters broke and Mum was flown to The Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. 24 hours later Lincoln arrived decided to beat a c-secton and entered the world as a footling breech. Lincoln spent 12 days in the nicu

Emily’s Story

Emily was born at Monash Hospital at 27 weeks gestation following Premature Rupture of Membranes. I was on holidays in Venus Bay with my husband and our two year old son when my waters broke in the early hours of the morning. We first drove to Leongatha Hospital, and I

The Amazing Lil’ Miss Tessaley Defies the Odds

In 2013 on Easter weekend, at only 26 weeks along, I stopped feeling my baby move. I didn’t want to be the overly paranoid mom who went into the hospital over every little thing so I figured maybe she was sleeping. After time had passed and still nothing, I looked

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Life's Little Treasures Foundation

18 hours ago

How are you doing? We know that navigating information regarding Covid-19 can be overwhelming for families, especially those families who have had a sick or preterm child. Thankfully researchers from the CRE in Newborn Medicine at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute have compiled a list of links to evidence-based resources for families who are understandably worried and seeking credible information. We hope that this helps make things clearer for you.

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Life's Little Treasures Foundation

2 days ago

The faces behind the foundation:
Meet Emma, Office Manager at LLTF.

Emma's an organisational whizz and has been sorting us out and keeping us in line for 3 years. She shares her story of being a prem mum herself and why the foundation is so important to her and her family.

"From about 28 weeks, my blood pressure shot up and was being monitored and hospitalised on and off and given medication to reduce my bp. At 31 weeks, I was experiencing a lot of pain and cramping in my uterus and lower back. I wasn’t bleeding so thought it must be ok and I waiting to see if the pain went, but a couple of hours later and the pain was getting worse so I went into my maternity ward and was examined. All of a sudden, I was told I would need to have an emergency c-section under a general anaesthetic and was been prepped by so many medical staff. I was experiencing a concealed placental abruption and was bleeding internally. I was so scared and couldn’t stop crying and I will never forget being whisked away quickly down the elevators to theatre and seeing these huge lights above me and so many people getting ready to take my baby out of me. All very surreal and having to kiss my husband goodbye was awful, he looked so worried and scared and had to wait outside. It was incredibly difficult for him feeling so helpless in this situation. My son, Noah was born not long after going into theatre. He was very sick and resuscitated heavily. He had a bleed to the brain (grade 2) and we nobody knew how long he was without oxygen so we were told to prepare ourselves that he may have brain damage. My world was shattered. Noah was then transferred to NICU in a hospital about 30 mins away and for the next 8 weeks we would travel each day to see him. The first week was extremely tough for us as we were unable to hold our beautiful little boy as he was intubated, however 6 days after he was born, I got my first cuddle which was truly the most wonderful feeling in the world. That moment really turned things around for me and made me so much more positive and helped with my mental health. He was in NICU for 4 weeks and another 4 weeks in SCN and was the toughest time in our lives, but after 55 days, we got to take Noah home. We feel incredibly blessed to have our beautiful son, who miraculously did not have any brain damage and who has reached all his milestones perfectly (apart from him being late in walking at 23 months actual which he had physio for). He is now almost 5 years old, thriving at kinder and will be starting school next year! Premmies are truly life’s treasures."

"At LLTF we are a small team of premmie mums and we see each other as family. I feel so lucky to be able to not only work with some of the strongest, inspirational, loving and intelligent women, but I get to be part of an amazing community. It doesn’t feel like work and being able to help as many families as we can is what I love. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive any support so want to ensure that nobody feels alone in their journey. I do a lot of work in organising and preparing for our annual fundraiser, Walk for Prems. A huge amount of work is done behind the scenes but we all do it with so much energy and passion and it is truly worth is to see so much joy on people’s faces when they all come together as a community to celebrate premmies. It’s such a wonderful day."

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