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Rugby World Cup Charity Dinner
The Little Miracles Trust are very excited to be supported by the Petone Club at a very special event in August. Alongside Te Omanga Hospice, The Little Miracles Trust have been selected as the recipent charities for the Petone Clubs 2019 Rugby World Cup Charity Dinner, being held on Saturday 24th August . Come along and enjoy a night…
The Generosity Journal featuring Rosemary Escott
We're privileged to be supported by One Percent Collective and their model that raises awareness and generates support (managing regular giving) for The Little Miracles Trust. Their latest Generosity Journal titled 'Be Human' features Rosemary Escott, Nurse manager for Wellington Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Rosemary is one of Wellington's 'Neonatal Angels', helping to manage and deliver the…
Essentials of Baby Play
Working with Baby Sensory, we're pleased to announce a new support resource 'Essentials of Baby Play' Play is fundamental to healthy brain development. It can be quiet or noisy, energetic or passive, social or non-social, relaxed or serious, imaginative or purposeful. Play may or may not require toys or equipment. This new resource, which you can…
Neonatal Research Update
Dr Max Berry is a consultant neonatologist who works in the Wellington Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and also a Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Health for the University of Otago (Wellington). The Little Miracles Trust is proud to have supported the research of Dr Berry and her team since 2013. Below is an update provided by…
Improving the mental wellbeing of wāhine Māori
Tēnā koutou! Innovation Unit is working on a project to improve the hauora of Māori mothers, and are looking to kōrero with wāhine Māori who have experienced any kind of mental distress from becoming hapū, up to your pēpi being 1 year old and have now come to a better place and are happy to…
Incubator Donation boxes – out and about!
Our converted incubator donation boxes have been out and about raising awareness and funds in the community. A few years ago when two incubators from the Wellington Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) had come to the end of service, an idea was hatched to produce unique donation boxes to raise awareness and funds for supporting families…
New recliners for Christchurch Neonatal Unit
The Little Miracles Trust were proud to present 6 brand new recliner chairs to the Christchurch Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) thanks to Alicia Gainsford and her niece Lilly. Alicia spent months organising 'A Night out for Neonatal' after her niece Lilly was born at 30 weeks, weighing 910gms. During Lilly's neonatal journey, Alicia spent many,…
Worlds smallest baby survives at 245gms
When she was born, the baby girl weighed about the same as an apple. A US hospital on Thursday (NZT) revealed the birth of the girl and said she is believed to be the world's tiniest surviving micro-preemie, who weighed just 245 grams when she was born in December. The girl was born 23 weeks and…
Activity across New Zealand in June
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’. The purpose of…
2019 Kangaroo cuddles awareness day
May 15th is International Kangaroo Cuddle Awareness day so there’s no better time to share some information on this practise - one that is great for both babies and parents. If you know someone in a neonatal unit and want to share details, provide them this PDF. This is an example of our resources developed with parents,…
May Newsletter
We produce a monthly newsletter with news updates, examples of our support, and more. If you want to receive this directly, you can provide your details on this page. As a guide to what you will see, here's a link to our May Newsletter as a PDF (Note, we won't provide links to all like this, so…
A HUGE thank you Baby Sensory!
Thank you! During the month of March 2019 Baby Sensory ran a ‘Senseathon’ to raise funds for The Little Miracles Trust. This was a fun, themed event where parents and their babies and/or toddlers were invited to come along in Superhero themed fancy dress and were tasked with completing special fun ‘superhero challenges’ during the Senseathon…