National Premmie Day - Friday July 25th 2008

The National Premmie Foundation announces the 2nd Annual National Premmie Day with celebrations occurring Australia wide for the births of our smallest and most vulnerable newborns.

Each year approximately 42,000 newborns are admitted to Special and Intensive Care Nurseries across Australia and you can be their voice this year. July 25th, 2008 is the day to celebrate with our Little Aussie Battlers - Our premature or seriously ill infants as well as remember those special babies who did not survive their journey.

The day coincides with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) season, a common virus that causes cold like symptoms. For prematurely born and seriously ill infants, RSV is a serious health threat often resulting in re hospitalisation or forced isolation to families. By the age of 2 all children will have been infected with RSV at least once and we want to make parents aware of the signs and symptoms of RSV.

The National Premmie Foundation invites parents of premature and sick newborns to hold a National Premmie Day event in their local community. Support and information for families, carers and health professionals is available at

www.prembaby.org.au or by calling 1300 PREMBABY 1300 773 622.

For Details on how Lifes Little Treasures will be celebrating National Premmie Day check out our

Events page

Through The Maze
Published by the Association of children with Disabilities - Phone: (03)9500 1232 or your council may have a copy. It is a guide to benefits & services.

Don’t be put off by the word disability in these books, it can be anything, we always thought you had to have a very disabled child to qualify for any help, not true, always ask, they will let you know.

Premmie Press
Another interesting magazine you might like to subscribe to, not very costly is the “Premmie Press”. It has some really interesting articles, the lady who runs it works out of the research centre at the Austin Hospital, Phone: (03)9496 4496 - Carol.