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Activity across New Zealand in February
AUCKLAND Mums Morning Tea -now EVERY Tuesday at 10.30am in the Mums room in NICU. Come and along to chat with one of our Lactation Consultants and other NICU Mums as well as enjoy some home baking provided by one of our ex-NICU Mums. Coffee Confidential – our coffee group with a ‘twist’. This is a facilitated group run…
Welcome Home – Home & Garden Tour 2019
Grab some friends and enjoy a day of inspration! Following on from the success and fantastic feedback of the 2017 Tour, The Little Miracles Trust in conjunction with Showroom, are again running the Welcome Home – Home & Garden Tour on Saturday 16th March 2019. This is a one-day, self drive, event where a selection of homes & gardens in the Seatoun and Worser Bay…
Neonatal Secret Santa 2018
Christmas day is a day for families to get together, be together and make memories. For hundreds of families this Christmas, their memories will be different to most with their baby (or babies, in the case of multiples) in a neonatal unit. There are over 360 incubators and cots in neonatal units (NICUs and SCBUs) across New…
New chairs for Nelson SCBU
Bonding between special care babies and their parents has just become a whole lot easier at Nelson Hospital. Two chairs, designed to enable new mums to cuddle and breastfeed in comfort, have been donated to the hospital's Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU), made possible by funds raised by World of WearableArt™ (WOW®), a longstanding supporter of…
Christmas at the Wells
To say that the Wells are a little bit excited about Christmas may be just a small understatement… in fact it might be more accurate to say that they are full-blown Christmas fans! When two people with a mutual love for Christmas get together it follows that their two separate Christmas decoration collections get together…
Welcome Home – Home & Garden Tour 2019
Following on from the success and fantastic feedback of the 2017 Tour, The Little Miracles Trust in conjunction with Showroom, are again running the Welcome Home – Home & Garden Tour on Saturday 16th March 2019. The tour will feature beautiful, interesting, stylish, family-focused homes with great character and soul. Attendees will get to soak in…
Premature babies born in NZ have a better chance to survive & thrive
Premature babies born in New Zealand have a better chance to "survive and thrive" than in many other countries around the world, a study shows. In the first research of its kind, researchers are using Statistics NZ's integrated data to understand more about the lives of New Zealand's premature babies. Using the linked, anonymous data, researchers can…
New sensory processing support resource
Working with Baby Sensory, we're pleased to announce a new support resource covering Sensory Processing. Babies born prematurely can often have some issues with sensory overload. What seems normal to us can easily overwhelm any child with sensory issues, and this is especially true for a premature or sick baby whose brain and body are not…
Activity across New Zealand in December
AUCKLAND ‘Tea for Tom’ Champagne High Tea - we had an amazing afternoon tea where we remembered young Thomas Gardener, we spoke about the impact on mental health from having a premature baby as well as the awesome coffee group that we’ve started up for our families ‘Coffee Confidential’. We raised $3800 which will help to…
A shooting star
Nobody expects to be told they are in the early stages of labour at 28 weeks gestation, but for Amy and Josh Lynch this was their reality. With antenatal classes due to start the following week and this being Josh and Amy's first child, they were given a crash course in what to do there…
Neonatal Secret Santa 2018
Christmas day is a day for families to get together, be together and make memories. For hundreds of families this Christmas, their memories will be different to most with their baby (or babies, in the case of multiples) in a neonatal unit. While the unit is the best place for the care of their baby (or…
Baking for Babies in action
Our thanks goes to everyone who got involved in 'Neonatal November'. See below for a number of images of the great efforts with Baking for Babies As part of our 'Neonatal November' 2018 activity, The Little Miracles Trust launched Baking for Babies - a new initiative to generate more support for neonatal families. With NICUs and SCBUs such…