National Premature Birth Awareness Week 24 - 30 November

Awareness Week Events

Organise an event to support National Premature Birth Awareness Week!

Some ideas include:

have an "orange" themed morning tea with your colleagues or friends

suggestions include : orange cake; fruits such as mango, cantaloupe, mandarins, oranges, peaches, apricots (and anything flavoured with any of these); muffins with any of the orange fruits; orange icing on any type of cake; carrot cake; carrots and dip (maybe roasted capsicum, or something else orange); cheezels/twisties/cheese flavoured snacks; cheese platter - red leicester would look great; orange jelly. Be inventive and see what interesting orange food you can come up with! (we'd love to see photos)

have a free dress day

either at your work or your children's school, with an orange (gold) coin donation, you could also sell BORN EARLY Ribbons

get together

with some friends or family, your Mothers' group, Kinder mums or School mums or dads; go to a play centre or a playground, or just to someone's house; collect an orange (gold) coin from each person; every little bit helps

sell BORN EARLY Ribbons

at your work or school

Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible. If you would like a receipt for your donation, make sure your event organiser has your name and email or postal address and the amount you donated and a receipt will be forwarded to you. Donations made via the website will receive receipts from the information supplied when you donate.

Further information for Event hosts

Posters available for download (pdf)

General (you should print one of more of these to go along with your event poster)

National Premature Birth Awareness Week Poster
National Premature Birth Awareness Week Information
Solving the puzzle of premature birth

Events

Morning tea
Free dress day
Get together
BORN EARLY Ribbons

BORN EARLY Banners

Add these great banners to your website or signature to help us to advertise National Premature Birth Awareness Week

small banner

Medium banner

Large banner

BORN EARLY Blankie

Support the cause - purchase a square or donate to a baby! See BORN EARLY Blankie for details.

BORN EARLY Ribbons

born early ribbon

Ribbons are orange with silver text "Born Early". $2 each, available from the Austprem BORN EARLY Online Shop in packets of 10 - sell them to your friends and family, or at your National Premature Birth Awareness Event!

BORN EARLY Bags

Cooler bags will be distributed free of charge to all babies in Level III hospitals during National Premature Birth Awareness Week. Filled with information and product samples of relevance to the journey with a premature baby, each bag can be reused to transport expressed breast milk to the hospital. It has a long carry strap and a handy front zip pocket which can be used to store your phone, keys and maybe some money for those trips to the hospital cafeteria.

The bag could later be used to keep snacks, lunches and drinks cool on outings with your child, or for adults to take their lunch to work while advertising and supporting Austprem, Earlybirds and Aromababy.

Bags are available for purchase via the Austprem BORN EARLY Online Shop

filled (with information, product samples and discount vouchers) $15

unfilled $10

BUY NOW

cooler bag born early bag 2
These photos show the outside of the bag and the inside of the bag full of bottles to indicate the size,
these are NOT the contents being given out during National Premature Birth Awareness Week,
nor what you receive if you purchase a "filled" bag