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Faith, Mama of twins born at 30 weeks, tells us about her experience in the NICU and how she managed to get through the 60 days with her top 10 tips.  On reading through them myself, I realise that many of these tips worked well for us, too.  Thank you Faith for sharing these pointers - hopefully you too, find them useful. 

We are so happy to share our first Mama story from Claire.  She is a Mama of 2, one born at 31 weeks.  She shares her experience, her feelings through the NICU journey and some valuable advice for families going through it right now.  Read her story here.

It's confirmed!  I'm so excited to announce that we will be donating a gift box, for every 10 sold, to both the Royal Women's Hospital and St Vincent's Private Hospitals in Melbourne, to support families with premmies in the Neonatal Intensive and Special Care Units.  The wonderful teams there looked after my small growth restricted 35 weeker and twin 32 weekers and were just so kind, thoughtful and amazing.  I'm so honoured to be able to give back to these hospitals and work with them to help families through the premmie journey. 

It's a continuing labour of love and here we are.   I am so happy to be sharing Mama Genie with you.  Supporting families through the journey of having a premmie has been my passion and goal since the idea popped in my head, after my own experiences. I have so many people to thank for getting to this point, yet I know there is further to go. From initially coming up with an idea to seeing it come to fruition, wondering where I’d find the hours in the day with my 3 beautiful children, going back to work, being pregnant...

So, I've been thinking about how we can get these gift boxes 'out there' to people who really need them.  We want to reach as many families going through the NICU journey as possible. So, for every 10 gift boxes we sell, we will donate a gift box to a family going through the journey, to try and make their lives just a little easier.  My NICU journey was all consuming both physically and mentally and that, for me, meant that I didn't want to leave my babies' cot sides for long.  So, not finding the nappies and clothes I needed for...