Estimates Of Survival

  Statistics For Premature Births In Queensland 2000   Total Live Births – 48 960 Premature Births – 3 876   By Gestation   By Birth Weight   Disability Statistics The primary aim of PIPA is to provide practical and...

Daniel’s Story

Daniel 29+5 weeks gestation 1730gms When you have just experienced the loss of a premature baby, it is hard to think about whether or not you want to follow this particular path again. After losing our beloved Alexandra, we decided...

Sarah’s Story

Sarah our tiny 34 weeker heart Prem Sarah our 5 pregnancy but our only child. Three first trimester losses and one seventeen week loss and problems with infertility in between meant we walked into Sarah’s pregnancy with a lot of...

Bella’s Story

Bella 29 weeks gestation 950gms When my husband Geoff and I found out that we were pregnant we were overjoyed and a little shocked. We had talked about having kids but after only being off the pill for 3 weeks...

Jonathon’s Story

Jonathon 28 weeks gestation 374gms I may never win a house, car, trip overseas or the lottery but I still must be one of the luckiest people in the world! You see, my most cherished dream of a child came...

Liam’s Story

Liam 28 weeks gestation 1200gms Stories of Liam have appeared in the PIPA newsletter before, written by his Nana, so I feel it’s about time his Mum gave an update. I have tried before, but get so emotional still. Such...

Joshua’s Story

A Million Tears I’m not sure how many tears I’ve lost to Joshua, I’ve lost count. Tears of joy finding out I was pregnant, tears of worry about what kind of mother I was going to be, tears when the...

Lianna’s Story

Lianna 26 weeks gestation 594 gms Before Bella was even one, Geoff and I decided that we would have a second child. When I found out that I was pregnant I did a bit of research on pre-eclampsia and found...

Kaitlyn’s Story

Kaitlyn 26 weeks gestation 1104 gms Kaitlyn’s story really starts way before she was even thought of, so the saying goes. I guess you could say it started in my childhood when I was diagnosed with Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy....

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