From the very first "I've got something to tell you", to the birth. Each weeks email includes information on:-

Focus: Premature Infant Spport
Location: Australia
Description: Austprem offers families who have experienced the complex challenges of parenting a premature infant the opportunity to reach out to other families facing this journey, and offer friendship, information and support

Focus: Baby Products Discount
Location:  Australia
Description: The Australian Baby Card is a discount card offering discounts on toys, clothes, party hire, children's lessons, play centres, tourist attractions and more. Cardholders don't need coupons as they only need to show their card to receive the discounts.

Focus: Promotion of breastfeeding

Location: Australia wide

The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) is an organisation of people interested in the promotion and protection of breastfeeding. Amongst these are breastfeeding women and their partners and health professionals such as doctors, lactation consultants and midwives. ABA was founded in Melbourne, Victoria in 1964 (as the Nursing Mothers' Association), with the primary aim of giving mother-to-mother support to breastfeeding women.

The Association is supported by health authorities and specialists in infant and child health and nutrition, including a panel of distinguished honorary advisers. ABA is recognised internationally as a source of accurate information about breastfeeding management and research.

With the support of the Lactation Resource Centre (LRC), ABA provides information to its counsellors and educates the wider community, from preschools to universities and professional organisations. ABA's voluntary breastfeeding counsellors are experienced mothers who have completed an intensive training programme and have successfully breastfed their own children. They are bound by a code of ethics and offer their support over the telephone, in person and through a wide range of literature

Focus: Supporting multiple birth families

Location: Australia Wide

AMBA is a not-for-profit volunteer organisation that provides support, resources and education to families and/or carers with multiple births. The national organisation that exists today had humble beginnings as a "mother's of twins" club based in Newcastle NSW formed in 1969.

By 1974, this one club had grown requiring the formation of a national governing body to support the many local clubs all over Australia. Today there are multiple birth clubs in every State and Territory of Australia with membership of around 5000 families.

http://www.beyondblue.org.au

Focus: Post Natal Depression
Location: Australian
Description; Beyond Blue provides clear and comprehensive information about PND, including:

• how to recognise the symptoms
• how to help someone
• the risk factors
• the treatments
• how to stay well

http://www.calmbirth.com.au/

Imagine a calm and joyful beginning to your baby’s life.calmbirth®  is a simple yet effective childbirth education programme which acknowledges the amazing ability of a mother’s body to work as one with her unborn child to give birth.  calmbirth® empowers the mother and her partner to birth with wonder and joy.Birth is a natural process which should be experienced fearlessly, calmly and with confidence. calmbirth® teaches pregnant mothers, fathers or birthing companions the skills to accomplish such an experience.

calmbirth® encourages mothers to surrender to the process of their labour and birth no matter how it unfolds. If, for some reason intervention is needed couples can use the skills learnt in the calmbirth® class to meet any challenge they encounter calmly and without fear.

Focus: Cloth Nappies
Location: Australia
Description: We provide information on modern cloth nappies, go through the choices and provide explanations for beginners. Our online store sells many different types and brands, from all over the world. We happily provide free personalised cloth nappy advice.

Focus: Nannies and babysitters
Location: Australia
Description: The best way to search for nannies, babysitters, aupairs, after school carers and other domestic help online. Other sites only let you search by postcode, but we have multiple criteria selections so you can find EXACTLY what you're looking for!

http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/

L’il Aussie Prems was created by Julia Toivonen in February 2007 who is mum to two premature babies, Ronan born at 27 weeks gestation in 2006 & Tristan born at 36 weeks in 2008 at Monash Medical Centre, VIC. Through her experience of giving birth so early to Ronan, a year after his 110 day long journey Julia decided to create an online community, L’il Aussie Prems to reach out to parents and offer support and understanding whether parents are still in the NICU/SCN or at home.  It has been a major learning curve creating and administrating a website but one Julia has thrived on. To date, the forum has a membership of over 1,200 members with a staggering 230,000 forum posts on support and advice from other families. The website is totally free for families to use.

Focus: Premature and very sick babies
Location: Australia
Description: LMK Inc is a not for profit charity based in Bendigo, Vic. We support families and carers of prematurely born babies and children with hospital visits and gift packs. We have a playgroup with guest speakers and a website.

http://www.miraclebabies.com.au/

Miracle Babies honours and celebrates the birth of babies who enter our world challenged by prematurity or sickness.

Our mission is to provide support to families throughout Australia during their journey through a Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the transition to home and onwards.

We provide emotional and practical support to families through hospital visits, newsletters, an online forum, playgroups, a 1300 phone number and an annual picnic. Miracle Babies can provide the structure and guidance for parents of miracle babies to set up their own support group in their local area.

Miracle Babies aims to raise community awareness and help educate people about the needs of these special newborns. The group works to raise funds for much needed equipment and resources for Newborn Intensive Care Units.

Miracle Babies originated through, and is closely aligned with, Liverpool Public Hospital in Sydney, earmarked to be the biggest hospital in the southern hemisphere. Founding members of Miracle Babies are all mothers who have experienced the birth of a premature or sick newborn. We understand the emotions of fear, love, guilt and elation and have learned to triumph over the challenges a premature or sick birth can bring.

We are here to share our strength and knowledge, to help families celebrate their own miracle babies.

Reflux Infants Support Association
covering: Australia wide

http://www.reflux.org.au/risasite/

• Telephone and email support
• Regular newsletters
• Printed literature
• Online forums
• A library service
• Coffee mornings
• Informal get-togethers

Focus: Breastfeeding Aids
Location: Australia
Description: Simple solutions to common challenges associated with breastfeeding.

Focus: Miscarriage
Website: http://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/
Telephone:
Location: UK
Description: We know that miscarriage can be a very unhappy, frightening and lonely experience. If you have been affected by the loss of a baby in pregnancy, whether recently or long ago, we hope that you will find here support, information and comfort.

http://www.tommys.org/

Focus: Charity which funds scientific research ensuring more a babies are born healthy.
Location: UK
Description: Provide information on pregnancy health aimed at parents-to-be.

At Tommy’s we believe it is unacceptable that one in four women will lose a baby during pregnancy and birth.

When a pregnancy fails or a baby dies, the families affected can be devastated and often have a desperate need to know why. Frustrated at the lack of research that meant they could rarely answer this question, two obstetricians working in the maternity unit at St Thomas' Hospital in London were inspired to start fundraising for more research into pregnancy problems.

Soon, their cause was taken up by others and a charity affectionately known as 'Tommy's' (after St Thomas' Hospital) was born.

That was 1992. Today, we lead the way in maternal and fetal research in the UK. To give every baby the best chance of being born healthy, we work to fund medical research into the causes of premature birth, stillbirth and miscarriage.

We fund three research centres in the UK, including St Thomas' in London, St Mary’s in Manchester and the recently established Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, which focus their research efforts on different issues relating to pregnancy.

We also feel it's important to raise awareness of the facts and to provide free, accurate and up-to-date information for medical professionals and parents-to-be.

This includes a dedicated telephone midwife service, a comprehensive website and free books and leaflets dedicated to promoting health in pregnancy and pre-pregnancy.

We are supported by people who want to do something about the lack of research and information around pregnancy issues like miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth.

We believe every parent has the right to a healthy pregnancy and baby. Our target is to halve the number of babies that die during pregnancy or birth by 2030.

Focus: Nursing & Maternity Wear
Location: Australia
Description: Visit us at www.whimsey.com.au and browse our collection of nursing & maternity wear.

Whimsey offers an online interactive Style Guide which helps our customers find the right style for their body shape. We've essentially taken the guess work from buying online, so you can feel confident with your purchase.

Express your unique style, breastfeed with confidence and embrace motherhood.