Women who have had just one miscarriage are more likely to suffer complications in future pregnancies, research shows.
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Rohan Townsend delivered one of his sisters with instructions from a paramedic over the phone early this morning after his mum went into labour 12 weeks early at their Sunshine Coast home…Read more…

Brisbane Premmies is currently down due to hacking. I’m hoping to have it back up and running in the next few weeks.

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The media loves a “good news” story, as a result the bias within the journalism is to present stories absent of proper fact. In the case of premmies represented in the media, even with the best intentions of the parents, we’re often told that even micro prems suffer little ill effect or few long term issues [...]

Welcome to Brisbane Premmies new “Three questions” series. These will be a series of short interviews conduction with three women who have experiences with certain aspects of prematurity. When where you first diagnosed with PE? Kyla Officially–probably the day I was admitted to hospital on the 14th May, 2007. At about 24 weeks I was concerned about [...]

Australian Action on Pre-eclampsia’s key goal is to provide support and raise public awareness of this potentially life threatening pregnancy condition. AAPEC was founded in 1993 by two mothers grieving the death of their babies due to Pre-eclampsia and is run entirely by volunteers, all whom have suffered from the condition themselves. What you need [...]

Julia Toivonen, the owner of Australia’s premier online support group for the parents of premature infants, speaks to us today on Brisbane Premmies about her journey through the birth of her first son Ronan and the creation of her website. Ronan was born at 27 weeks gestation, where you given a reason for his early arrival? At [...]

Many premmie parents have concerns about their child’s development, we are no exception. It’s difficult, your child had a rough start and you’d like to do everything in your power to lessen any problems that may arise from it. Ultimately, often the best you can do is to help your child learn through play. Watch [...]

This entry originally appeared on my personal blog on June 13 2008. It is the fourth in a series of posts detailing our journey with eating problems and tube feeding. Fresh from a six day hospital admission I’m starting to think that there is no such thing as a “good” doctor. They all seem to have [...]

My experience with pre-eclampsia began six weeks before Erin was born. I’d gone to visit a cousin who’s recently given birth to her third son. It was our second night in Tamworth and we’d called into a steak house for dinner. As a lifelong sufferer of migraines what happened next wasn’t uncommon for me. As [...]

New research has found a critical pathway which triggers early labour. In some cases an infection can increase levels of a protein in the womb known as TLR4 which starts labour.

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This entry was originally posted on my personal blog on 4 June 2008 and is the third in a series of posts detailing our journey with eating problems and tube feeding Well, we haven’t been admitted. Despite the fact that this was an arranged admission, that I’d completed Miss E’s admission form, that she’d been bagged [...]

This entry was originally posted on my personal blog in June 1 2008 and is the second in a series of posts detailing our journey with eating problems and tube feeding. There’s no eloquent way to tell you all that last weeks jubilation over Erin’s lack of face furniture has been short lived. On Friday, before her [...]

This entry was originally posted on my personal blog on May 24 2008 and is the first in a series of articles written about our personal journey with eating problems and tube feeding. I’d like you all to sing along with me “tube free, as free as the wind blows” okay so those are the only [...]

I made up a batch of these yesterday and can only assume that they’re good based on the fact that the recipe makes about 2 dozen and there are only three left. They’re full of fat and protein, two things every growing premmie needs for that magical, mystical catch up growth. Ingredients 1/2 cup caster sugar [...]