Links
LMK is constantly scouring the web to find sites that may interest our members and guests. Please be patient whilst we gather descriptions and validate the links and we encourage you let us know of any others that could fit here. The links listed below provide their own information and as such LMK does not take responsibility for their content.
- Charities and Support Services
National Premmie Foundation
Approximately 40,000 babies are admitted to Special and Intensive Care Nurseries each year in Australia for a variety of reasons.
Almost 21,000 of these babies are born prematurely. Around 6,000 babies require critical and intensive life support each year.
All of these babies and their families need support and a voice. Our mission is to support these special babies and their families during their hospital stay and afterwards. We also aim to help those who have helped our precious little ones -
our Special Care Nurseries and Neonatal Intensive Care units save thousands of baby’s lives every year, and we are forever grateful!
Little Wonders
Little Wonders mission is to touch the lives of each family in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or Special Care Nursery in a positive, lasting way and to offer the best support network and information for the parents and families who have experienced a difficult pregnancy, premature birth, the loss of a baby, or have a child with additional needs within John Hunter Children’s Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Lifes Little Treasures
Lifes Little Treasures is a charity run by volunteer parents who themselves have had a premature baby. We provide support and assistance to other families of premature babies throughout Victoria, either in hospital, neonatal intensive care units, special care nurseries or in the community when families get home
Lil Aussie Prems
Australia’s online support site for parents and families of premature babies. You will find links to Australian premature baby support groups,clothing stores, read premature birth stories and blogs, see premature baby galleries, announce the birth of your precious premature baby and join a supportive community with parents from Australia, New Zealand and around the world to chat and share your journey through the NICU and beyond. We welcome you to join our free Community Forum, from which you can also create your own Personal Blog to share with family and friends about your premature babies journey. Draw inspiration from our real life Premature Baby Birth Stories and Premature Baby Galleries - from the tales of survival of the smallest of premature babies, to life accounts of amazing battles to survive and thrive. The forum features a qualified psychologist - Louise Williams on hand for those members who are in extra need of help and guidence. If you are looking for something specific please be sure to look through our Directory. Having a premature baby come into your world can be a life-enriching experience - why not come share your story with us?
NNICUPS.
As members of the Nepean Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Parents Support Group, an Australian organisation. We are part of the Nepean General Hospital located in the City of Penrith at the foot of the Blue Mountains near Western Sydney, New South Wales (NSW) Australia. We have experience with all our babies having varying degrees of gestation and challenges at birth. If you are facing the prospect of giving birth to a premature baby we hope that you may take away some hope from the information you are about to see on this Web Site
PIPA
PIPA was formed in 1980 to provide a support network for the families dealing with the Premature birth of their baby in Queensland and Northern New South Wales Hospitals. For over 25 years this work has been carried on by a large number of volunteers whose lives have been touched and changed by a premature birth.
It is the aim of this site to support our personal work with parents and be a place where parents can find information on all things relating to their premature baby. This site has been set up by volunteers as an information source only. We are parents who have experienced first hand dealing with a prem but we have no medical qualifications and we urge you not to act on any of our advice without talking to your health provider.
CCP
The Central Coast Premmie & Sick Newborn Support Group was the vision of Fiona Dixon after her own daughter Airlie Fae was born at 27 weeks gestation in January 2006 due to Pre Eclampsia and HELLP Syndrome.
Precious Premmies
The Mums and Miracles behind the EventThe journey continues today for all of our Precious Premmies and their families, each of them having faced their own set of health challenges over the past 2 years. Some of us have spent weeks in hospital with our premmies fighting off lung infections that for many healthy full-term babies equals a cold and few days at home. We are all still on first name’s basis with our Paediatricians and for some, the nurses in the children’s wards have become friends. Physio and health clinics are a regular part of the routine. And several of us attend speech lessons. Such is the life with a precious premmie, but we wouldn’t have it any other way, because to have them at all is a miracle!Our journeys will continue for many years to come and it can often take 6 years for premmies to catch up to their full term counterparts.We hope by sharing our stories with you it will touch your hearts and inspire you to embrace every moment of life and live like you have never lived before.
Australian Breastfeeding Association
Sids and Kids
Bonnie Babies
Beyond Blue
RISA
PANDA
PERI
Miracle Babies
Austprem
Australian Charity of Child Photographers
The ACOCP is a volunteer organisation of child photographers from all over Australia who have come together to form an organisation dedicated to giving the gift of photographic memories to families that have experienced stillbirths, premature and ill infants and children in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units of their local hospitals, as well as children with serious and terminal illnesses. The ACOCP is dedicated to providing this gift to families in a caring, compassionate and heartfelt manner.
The ACOCP is the brain child of Siobhan Cowell, a Brisbane based photographer who was an NICU nurse in a previous life. In early 2006 Jessie Broome, a childrens photographer in Melbourne, came on board and by working together the Australian Charity of Child Photographers was created. After a year of hardwork and legal red tape the ACOCP officially launched in May, 2007. Since then we have grown from a handful of photographers to a nation wide organisation helping families across Australia on a daily basis.
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