Welcome to CQ Premmies, The needs of parents in Central Queensland are unique. There are no large hospitals here. Parents of infants born very premature have to leave there homes for many months while their baby is cared for in one of the large tertiary hospitals. Often Mum is with their prem baby while Dad must stay at home due to work commitments and / or to care for the baby’s older siblings. Even when you bring your prem home the challenges continue. Follow up health care for your prem often means …
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Baby wearing has been around for centuries, and of course there are numerous baby carries available on the market today, CQ Premmies is delighted to have Hug a Bub on board as a supporter.
Hug a Bub specialize in wraps and slings to wear your baby in, and more importantly smaller babies (as in our little prems) can be worn in these wraps!!
Why?
For me personally we started baby wearing after my 3rd baby was born, i needed to hold him for long periods during the day to settle him (reflux!) and …
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Hi all, i know the site is becoming more and more popular these days – YAY!!!
and i also know there a a few dead links on here – which i apologize for not fixing sooner!, i plan on getting stuck into the site next week after the madness of Easter is over and i have a few moments spare to actually sit and think!!
If you have anything you feel should be added to the site, information you have found handy that you know will help other parents, or any input …
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Most premmie mums will find themselves almost constantly hooked up to the breast pump, expressing that precious milk for bubs, it can be quite a task to tackle and thankfully we have come across this wonderful little write up on Exclusive pumping.
Take a look, and I’m sure all will find very insightful!
http://www.mother-2-mother.com/ExclusivePumping.htm
(ok so a second look has reminded me that its not exactly little ! – but still very very good!)
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Central QLD Prems is in the process of sewing up a storm – if you would like to help out by donating some cotton fabric please let us know and we can make arrangements to get it to us. contact_us@cqpremmies.com
idealy anything bigger than 50×50 cm – printed or plain cotton!
I will be back to post some pics of a few completed gowns in the next few days
alternately – if you are a sewer and would like to help out in sewing up some gowns – please do let us …
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Central QLD Premmies is seeking assistance in getting some bags for our parent pack contents to go in!
DO you know of anyone that can help us out? (they need to be at least A4 sized with carry handles preferably!!)
If you can help out or know or know of someone that can help us out please let us no!!
