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... Continue reading →
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... Continue reading →
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... Continue reading →
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... Continue reading →
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... Continue reading →
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... Continue reading →
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... Continue reading →
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... Continue reading →
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.... Continue reading →