Mar 24 2010
Local Premmie Hero Award Nominations
www.lilaussieprems.com.au are receiving some amazing nominations for the 2010
“Local Premmie Hero Awards”
They will be regularly sharing the wonderful achievements of the nominees over the coming months. Our nominees give so much to help others in the premmie community. We are sure that they will inspire you.
Our wonderful team of judges have a very hard task ahead.
If you know of a “premmie hero” who volunteers their time to help families nominate them today.
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more nominees …
Parool – Victoria
In 2003 Parool had a premature baby boy & at the time there was no support available to parents. Parool decided she had to change this so in 2005 together with 5 other premmie mums they started the charity Lifes Little Treasures of which she is now president and played a major role is forming the Premmie Foundation. She works tirelessly to provide the support network that families require on leaving hospital & most importantly strives to create awareness amongst the community.
Over the years she has made many personal sacrifices because what LLT stands for was so important to her & her beliefs. If she not on the phone she on the email 24/7, always working even on holidays!. Her ultimate wish is to provide information, support and encouragement to families with premature babies, empowering them to achieve the best outcomes for their children. She is always available when needed by a family & will do everything in her power to assist them. She has a dream and is well on the way to fulfilling it. She’ll never take no for an answer! we are blessed to have her on our side…
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Stephanie – Queensland
Stephanie & her identical twin sister were born at 31 weeks gestation in 1996 and spent 6 weeks in hospital. From the age of 12 months until 5 years of age Stephanie suffered from numerous hospital admissions due to breathing difficulties and allergies. During this time she was desperately underweight and always looked unwell. Finally at aged 5, two ENT (ear, nose and throat) operations helped her to overcome her problems and since that time she has never looked back. From that time on she has taken every opportunity to enjoy life, be involved in numerous sports and to help other community members. Stephanie is now aged nearly 14 and is an athletic, healthy teenager. In 2007 aged 11, Stephanie decided she needed to do something to help other premature babies. She signed up to fundraise for the Mater Mothers’ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Since that day Stephanie has worked over 100 hours annually to fundraise for the unit and done so much more. Without corporate contacts her fundraising has been through an enormous amount of time and effort.
To date Stephanie has raised $15,000 for the NICU and also highlighted and promoted the work carried out by the unit and the need for fundraising to be carried out for the hospital. This has been through numerous newspaper and magazine articles and web site information. She was the premature baby who is now helping other premature babies and their families.
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Nola – Western Australia
Nola is the grandmother to little Gemma born at 30 weeks gestation weighing 920 grams (a surviving twin). Nola lives in Western Australia and was nominated by her daughter. Since her grand daughter was 4 weeks old Nola has been sewing humidy crib covers, matching bags, peanut pillows and clothes for premmie and tiny babies and donating them to the King Edward Memorial Hospital in WA with all material funded by herself and a few lovely friends. She also takes in regular updates and photo’s of Gemma into the hospital to help give others hope at the end of the sometimes long and very daunting tunnel. Nola has been a rock for her daughter and the many families with babies in the King Edward Memorial Hospital who are the lucky recipients of her good will and love for our precious premature babies.
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Dr Cartwright – Queensland
Dr Cartwright goes above and beyond his role in NICU/SCN at the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital. Dr Cartwright basically never goes home, he is there early to late EVERY day, he rarely takes weekends off and when he is on holidays he rings in to ask about his patients. In fact he’s been known to ring in during the early hours of the morning at other times. He has rung his patients mobiles on many occasions post NICU to check on how their children are going and always makes sure that he does follow up appointments himself. He is also very involved if not the driving force behind a lot of research and development in the premature baby world. He has written textbooks and other publications on the care of extremely premature babies which is insightful to parents of prems.
congratulations to all the nominees so far… there are still more to come. Each one of these “hero’s” are amazing in their help and assistance to babies and famileies of premature babies.
Below… Earlybirds sleep nest and Tummybear Premature baby keepsake doll. These dolls are custom made to the size and weight of your own baby. La Toriana are proud to be able to provide familes of premmie babies a choie in gorgeous clothing, toys and accessories.
La Toriana are fast becoming a leader in providing stylish, affordable quality premmie baby clothing, premature baby gifts, premmie baby comforters and premature baby accessories to family and friends touched by the birth of a premmie baby.
La Toriana have a dedicated category for premmie babies called “Premmie Baby” online on our website.
We have one of the largest and most stylish, affordable collection of premmie baby clothing, premature baby gifts and newborn baby keepsakes available to buy online. If you have a baby born early, or are a friend/family looking to give a premmie baby gift… contact me and I can help you to choose the right baby gift for them.
At La Toriana we showcase great Australian and New Zealand designers as well as neonatal and NICU appropriate baby clothing as well as organic premmie clothes and accessories. Checkout our vast range of premmie wear and newborn baby items in our secure online baby boutique. If you are looking for a premmie baby keepsake doll, or organic baby wear for a bub that has been born prematurely, then you have come to the right online store. La Toriana specialise in providing great quality, stylish and affordable designer label products for low weight babies and babies born early.
At La Toriana we have a passion for baby & kids fashion
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