Our ServicesNICU Connections
NICU Connections events, both online and face-to-face, offer you a chance to connect with staff and volunteers who ‘get it’, because we’ve been there.
At NICU Connections events you will learn about all of our educational resources and services available to you in hospital and once you transition home.
Most importantly, you’ll connect with other families who are experiencing similar challenges, along with our staff members who bring their own lived experience.
NICU Connections – Online
These online groups are run by LLTF staff and trained volunteers to offer you a safe space to connect, find support and talk with other families in a similar situation.
We have developed three online support groups for parents;
- NICU Connections in Hospital – My baby is in hospital – Fridays 11am -1pm AEST
- NICU Connections at Home – We’re now home – Wednesdays 11am -1pm AEST
- NICU Connections for Dads and male carers – Wednesdays 8pm –10pm AEST
These sessions are run via an online closed Facebook group so you can sit with your baby and join in cot-side using your own personal device.
Join NICU Connections – at Home group
Join NICU Connections – for Dads group
NICU Connections – face-to-face
A morning tea is held each month, or fortnightly, in selected hospitals across Australia.
Enjoy a light morning tea and a ‘cuppa’ with our peer support staff and volunteers who have the lived experience.
Share your story and learn from others about how they are surviving the NICU or SCN.
You’ll meet some wonderful people and learn all about LLTF and how we can support and empower you with our resources, products and services.
Listed below are all the locations where we hold morning tea events
Victoria
NICU Connections
- The Royal Women’s Hospital
Mercy Hospital for Women
Monash Children’s Hospital
Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Queensland
NICU Connections
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital – Brisbane
Gold Coast University Hospital – Gold Coast
Townsville University Hospital – Townsville
South Australia
NICU Connections
Women’s and Children’s Hospital – Adelaide
NICU Connections Playgroup, Oakleigh South, Victoria
Our NICU Connections playgroup sessions are a peer supported play session for parents to meet and connect with other families in their area who have also been through the life changing experience of pre-term birth and/or a sick baby needing to spend time in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Special Care Nursery (SCN).
NICU Connections Playgroup sessions are free of charge to families and will run fortnightly for two hours during school terms.
Join our NICU Connections Facebook group here to register your interest –
NICU Connections Playgroup