Little Wonder

10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day with love from Little Wonder. We hope all the mums, grandmas and mother figures had a lovely day today 💐

14/02/2026

❤️ We are feeling the looooove today! Happy Valentines day to all the current families in the NICU. A little something from us thanks to our on-going support from and their amazing skilled members ❤️

17/11/2025

To help raise awareness of World Prematurity Day, share and tag your photos with so we can see how your little wonders are going

17/11/2025

We 🤍 seeing how our Little Wonder alumni are doing! Share your photos here!!!

17/11/2025

We are at the RPA today raising awareness of and celebrating all the amazing graduates of the RPA NICU and their families. Come say hi if you're in the area 💜

13/09/2025

😍 Nine years after their premature birth, twins Amalia and Melaina Kekatos returned to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to give back to the place where their lives began.

Nine years after their premature birth, twins Amalia and Melaina Kekatos returned to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to give back to the place where their lives began.

Born at 36 weeks and cared for in the NICU, the girls – now Year 3 students at Pymble Ladies’ College (PLC) – took part in this year’s Humpty Dumpty Balmoral Burn with their classmates. Together, PLC raised more than $16,000 for the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, with an extraordinary $13,000 raised by Amalia and Melaina themselves.

In recognition of their fundraising efforts, the twins were given the opportunity to choose a hospital and a piece of equipment to donate. They selected RPA, honouring the specialised care they received as newborns, and purchased an Astodia Diaphanoscope valued at $3480 for the NICU.

The equipment is designed to support doctors and nurses in inserting intravenous cannulas into babies. By using near-infrared light to make veins visible through the skin, the Diaphanoscope guides the procedure, reducing the number of attempts and minimising pain, bruising, and distress for babies at NICU.

Read more: https://slhd.health.nsw.gov.au/sydneyconnect/2025-news/twins-gift-rpas-tiniest-patients

10/09/2025

In 1903, when premature babies were left to die in hospital corridors, Martin Couney had an audacious plan. He'd smuggle life-saving technology into America disguised as entertainment.

Couney set up his "Infantorium" at Coney Island, where rows of glass incubators held the tiniest fighters you'd ever seen. These babies were so small they wore doll clothes because no store made human garments tiny enough.

The sign read "All the World Loves a Baby" and visitors paid 25 cents to peek inside. Critics called it exploitation. Parents called it salvation.

What the crowds didn't realize was they were witnessing a medical revolution. Every nickel and dime funded round-the-clock nursing care, specialized feeding, and temperature-controlled environments that hospitals refused to provide.

Couney encouraged his nurses to hold and cuddle the babies in front of audiences, proving these weren't specimens but precious children deserving love and care.

For four decades, desperate families brought their smallest miracles to a man who promised what doctors wouldn't: hope. By the time Couney's exhibits ended, he had welcomed over 8,000 babies and sent 6,500 of them home alive.

This model later became the blueprint for modern neonatal intensive care units. Sometimes the greatest medical breakthroughs happen not in sterile hospitals, but in the hands of someone brave enough to care when the world has given up.

More information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Couney

01/08/2025

Join us in wishing Little Wonder graduate *Alina* a very happy 12th birthday today! We have had the pleasure of posting Alina's birthday photos since she was in the RPA NICU 12 years ago! We hope you enjoy your celebrations tonight and over the weekend Alina! Party like a 🥳🥳

23/06/2025

Don't miss out on this wonderful event, grab your tickets today and support the RPA NICU ..just by having a good time 💛

15/06/2025

Tis the season! Join us for this wonderful festive evening in support of our favourite department, the RPA NICU. Canapes and drinks from 6.30pm followed by a special sit-down dinner and a few surprises!