Together you made miracles happen!
On Saturday 6 April 2024, the community came together to make miracles happen. Thank you for your generosity, making an incredible impact for critically ill babies.
Every baby born at a Mater Mothers’ hospital is affectionately known as a little miracle, but some newborns need intensive, round-the-clock specialist care. And when that happens, Mater is there.
The Nine Telethon supporting Mater Little Miracles is bringing the Queensland community together to support Mater Little Miracles and create collective impact for our littlest patients. It spotlights how Mater improves the health outcomes for mothers and babies by being a leader in neonatal critical care and maternal fetal medicine.
Through the generosity of communities across Queensland, Mater clinicians and researchers can continue to improve outcomes for our tiniest and most vulnerable patients. Every donation will go towards making a baby's entry into the world as smooth as it can be.
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Supporting Queensland’s little miracles
Current donation:
2,000+
very ill and premature babies receive round-the-clock specialist care from the Mater Mothers' Neonatal Critical Care Unit every year
50%
chance of survival for babies born at 23 weeks gestation
1st
and only team at Mater performing open fetal spinal surgery in Australia and New Zealand
Your impact
When you contribute directly to Mater Little Miracles, you become a partner in this mission: an advocate in making a baby's entry into the world as smooth as it can be. With the help of your donation and the donations from others like you in the community, Mater clinicians and researchers can continue to improve outcomes for our tiniest and most vulnerable patients.
Meet the little miracles
Every year more than 2,000 very ill and premature babies receive round-the-clock specialist care from the team in Mater Mothers' Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU). The Nine Telethon will follow some of our amazing stories and showcase the work of our talented and dedicated clinical and research teams who continue to deliver life-saving and life-changing care, explore inspiring stories, like the ones below:
Meet baby Ollie, born at 24 weeks and entered the world weighing 520 grams. Mum Erika, knew Ollie was going to have to fight for his life.
Lilly Kate was born 14 weeks premature by emergency caesarean, she weighed less than a loaf of bread. Mum Emily Kate, wanted to hold her little girl so badly, but she couldn’t.
Ethan was born at 27 weeks and he had in-utero surgery to repair his severe spina bifida defect at 24 weeks gestation, and it truly was miracle surgery.
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