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Talofa Lava, I wanted to share my baby’s journey with you all with hope this may inspire someone who is currently going through NICU🤍 Genesis was born at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland on the 20th May 2021 Weighing: 780grams Expected due date: 06 September 2021 Our entire journey with NICU/SCBU Middlemore and NICU (Surgical) Auckland…

Baby Jaye Born: October 2021Weight: 700 gramsGestation: -25 +0 weeks Jaye has one hell of a story to tell she is the strongest little person I've ever met. 💜 Jaye was born very early due to my cervix opening, membranes being exposed and in the end infection set in causing me to go into labor.…

Our daughter Elsie was born on the 26th of October at 8.24pm, weighing 1211 grams at 27+6 weeks gestation. It was discovered I was in premature labour at 27 weeks following a small bleed. Living in Taupō where our hospital does not have the facilities to treat such premature infants, I was rushed to Waikato…

We really appreciate the generosity of Paul and the team at National Storage in Newtown, who sponsored a storage unit for us recently. Paul is the Dad of 2 NICU grads, so has first hand experience of the support of our Wellington team. https://nationalstorage.nz/locations/newtown/

As told by mum, Antonia  Unlike most people we know, our journey to have a child wasn’t the stock standard, or the norm, but one thing it has been, is no short of a miracle.  After two rounds of IVF and the transfer of 4 embryos, we finally got that amazing phone call to tell…

The Little Miracles Trust is priviledged to have the support of Baby Sensory For some time, we've been working together and sharing information to help those on a neonatal journey.  Using their research based material, we've co-produced support material: The first of the new resources 'Supporting Development' Which was followed by the Sensory Processing resource. And, watch…

I had my baby Desiigner Te Rauwhero Steven Heitia born @ 30 weeks gestation weighing 1905 grams in Waikato Hospital in August 2021. On this day was the 19th anniversary of the passing of my great grandmother & members of my family saw this as rebirth. During this time was really hard for me because…

Kia ora! As always, I hope this newsletter finds you and your whanau well and looking forward to some sunshine over the summer, wherever you are in Aotearoa New Zealand.  This will be our last newsletter for the year and what a year it has been - again! The year started off with so much…

In 2016 I lost my baby at 13 weeks and even though I was a teenager, I spent years trying to conceive again after that and it just wasn't happening for my partner and me. I felt hopeless and broken and eventually gave up trying and then all of my dreams came true when I…

I knew there were premature babies, but I never thought it would happen to me. I actually thought the opposite would happen - he’d stay in there for 42 weeks and need to be evicted! So when I reached 29 weeks and got “a show”, then started getting tummy ache that felt like period pain,…