A visual example of how tiny micro-prems are
Thanks to Huggies The Little Miracles Trust has a beautiful boxed frame visual to show just show how small premature babies can be. Pictured to the right, this is a wonderful new tool for us to raise awareness. It will be used at events such as our upcoming Home & Garden Tour and other opportunities.
Underneath each nappy is the context of the weight of the respective wearers of these nappies, i.e., 500 grams for the ‘Nano’ nappy, and 3,450 grams for the ‘Standard’ nappy (which is the average weight of a baby in New Zealand).
For another visual reference, see below for a Nano Premmie nappy next to a standard pen!
Bringing these to New Zealand
Learn more about Huggies bringing these tiny nappies to New Zealand here:
littlemiraclestrust.org.nz/2018/03/18/new-micro-premmie-nappies-new-zealand
You can also read the full details in this Sunday Star Times article
(Thaks Lisa for being involved and helping to raise awareness. Great to hear Millie now home and doing well)
About these special nappies, in the words of Huggies!
Huggies believes in leaving no baby unhugged, so this inspired us to create our tiniest nappy yet – the Nano Premmie Nappy.
Specially designed and developed in partnership with neonatal nurses, after extensive research and interviews with medical professionals and neonatal therapists, we designed a nappy for premature babies under 900 grams – providing the optimal fit for healthy growth development. Our Nano Premmie Nappies allow premmies to grow in comfort while accommodating for medical leads and tubes in the incubator.
Our Nano Premmie Nappy also features specially-sized fasteners and a narrow pad for more flexibility.
Nappy Momento Pack
Do you want to have a tangible reminder of just how small your baby was?
Perhaps something to show at their 21st?
The perfect addition to your baby keepsakes, The Little Miracles Trust ‘Nappy Momento Pack’ provides a special visual tool to illustrate just how small your baby was at birth. Click here to buy it.
The ‘Nappy momento pack’ includes:
- A ‘Nano Premmie’ nappy, for babies up to 900g
- A ‘Micro Premmie’ nappy, for babies up to 1.8kg
- A ‘Premmie’ nappy, for babies up to 3kg
- A ‘Newborn’ nappy, for babies born full-term / over 3kg. This provides the context of size for the other nappies.
The nappies come in a natural coloured drawstring bag (size: 18cm x 23cm). This is 100% Biodegradable calico cotton bag manufactured in a SEDEX certified facility. Our thanks to the great team at A1 Embroidery who helped with the logo on the bag.
This is a fundraiser for The Little Miracles Trust and will enable more of our support.
The packs are available for $25.00, including postage within New Zealand. (Rural delivery an additional $3.70). Click here to buy it.
If you want a PDF on this to print, save or send to someone else, you can find it here.
Thanks Huggies!
Our thanks goes to Huggies for supporting this fundraiser. Huggies produce the Nano nappies and have made these available to all neonatal units in New Zealand.
Thanks so much for sharing your personal story!
We get a lot of positive feedback from families in a neonatal unit who read these stories and feel strength, hope and positivity knowing that they are not alone going through these experiences and feeling certain emotions.
If you would like to discuss sharing the story of your neonatal journey, we’d love to hear from you.
Support Us
If you want to help our support of families going through the stress and anxiety of a neonatal journey, you can donate via the link below.
- The Little Miracles Trust provides support to families of premature or sick full-term babies as they make their journey through Neonatal Intensive Care, the transition home, and onwards. We do not receive any Government funding and are entirely reliant on the generosity of individuals, companies and organisations in the form of donations, value-in-kind donations, grants, sponsorship and fundraising events to supplement operating costs and fund our services and initiatives.
- As we are a registered charity (CC56619) with Charities Services New Zealand we will send you an IRD compliant tax receipt – this will happen automatically by return email.