Make a Mothers’ Day!
Host a 'High Tea' in support of Neonatal Families Each year over 5,000 babies across New Zealand will need to spend time in an intensive care unit which may be due to being born as early as 23 weeks gestation or full-term with a medical condition. This means that...
Meals where they’re needed most
Warm meals are making a difference for often tired and stressed-out parents of babies in the Waikato Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Bellyful Hamilton volunteers have begun delivering stocks of frozen meals to the Waikato NICU. The Little Miracles Trust has...
A friendly face for Lower Hutt families
Neonatal families spending time at the Lower Hutt Special Care Baby Unit now have a new welcoming face. The Little Miracles Trust are delighted to announce Anita Woodgate will be holding a fortnightly morning tea for current families. This will be a time for...
Giving bereaved parents more time
The Little Miracles Trust recently purchased 2 special mattresses for CuddleCots for use in the Waikato Neonatal Unit to help parents who suffer the loss of their baby. Dealing with the death of a baby is clearly an incredibly difficult event for parents...
Christmas 2020
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 400...
Thank you Dorothy L Newman Charitable Trust
The Little Miracles Trust would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Dorothy L Newman Charitable Trust for its recent donation of nearly which enabled The Trust to purchase a new Medela Symphony Breast Pump which is made available to mothers in the...
Thanks Jetstar
We are privileged to have the support of Jetstar who are helping us to deliver Support packs to families going through the stress and anxiety of a neonatal journey. In a very stressful time, receiving a Support pack to help as you enter the foreign world of the...
Neonatal November 2020
Neonatal November was launched in 2017, we were conscious that there are many full-term neonatal journeys each year (ie the full-term babies with health issues and/or complications) and we wanted to widen beyond World Prematurity Day on November 17th. All babies...
Neonatal Latch On
World Breastfeeding Week is a global campaign that runs from 1 - 7 August every year to raise awareness and galvanise action on themes related to breastfeeding. This year is focused on the links between breastfeeding and planetary health. As part of this,...
NICU Dads Coffee and Catch Up
We're pleased to announce there's now a group for neonatal dads! Held every fortnight at 6pm on Tuesday evening at Wellington NICU, you'll find Darcy Stott, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner host a "NICU Dads Coffee and Catch Up" in the Parent Lounge. Be sure to check...
