About the Bonnie Babes Foundation

The Bonnie Babes Foundation was founded in 1994 and is a non government funded, non-profit, volunteer based charity which is the only organisation of its type which provides:
The Bonnie Babes Foundation:

• Provides medical equipment to hospitals for premature babies struggling for life in intensive care.
• Assists vital medical research projects into pregnancy loss and complications to women’s health during and following pregnancy.
• Provides education and training for health professionals.
• Provides free family crisis phone lines for those who have lost a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or prematurity.
• Provides health nutrition and wellness advice for women prior to and during pregnancy.
• Provides support for families with infertility issues and assists with counselling relating to infertility.
• Provides support for babies born with congenital malformations.
• Supports women who develop pre-eclampsia and other medical conditions during pregnancy.
• The Foundation also provides education and training for health professionals.

Sadly one in every four pregnancies ends in a loss from miscarriage and stillbirth. One in every ten babies are born prematurely.
In Australia, 1 in 10 babies are born prematurely, with almost half of these babies needing life support in a neonatal intensive care unit.  Tiny premature babies are often struggling on life support systems.  The equipment is expensive and technology can help these babies.  The Foundation’s aim is to raise much needed funds to help these special babies and increase their chances of survival.

The Bonnie Babes Foundation has helped thousands of families since its inception.  The Charity is a national grief counselling organisation and is the only organisation of its type in Australia covering all pregnancy loss issues.

The money raised contributes to purchasing new medical equipment for intensive care areas in hospitals, vital medical research and most importantly, the grief counselling services and grief support groups for families suffering this traumatic loss Australia wide.

Our honorary Lawyers are Wisewoulds Mahony Lawyers - Mr Robert Toth.

Medical Committee Members

• Professor Lesley Barclay – Professor and Director Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health (NSW)
• Associate Professor Fiona Bogossian – University of Queensland
• Dr Lucy Bowyer - Sub-Specialist Maternal Fetal Medicine, Royal Hospital for Women (NSW)
• Associate Professor Leonie Callaway - Head of Royal Brisbane Clinical School, Staff Specialist in Internal and Obstetric Medicine, Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital.
• Professor Paul Colditz - Director Perinatal Research Centre, Royal Women’s Hospital, Brisbane
• Dr John Drew – Pediatrician
• Professor Warwick Giles – Senior Staff Specialist & Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital.
• Associate Professor Rajat Gyaneshwar, Clinical Director of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Liverpool Hospital NSW
• Associate Professor Roger Hart – Specialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Fertility Specialists of Western Australia
• Associate Professor Ross Haslam – Head Neonatal Medicine, Women’s & Children’s Hospital (SA)
• Associate Professor Rosemary Horne, NHMRC Research Fellow, Scientific Director of the Ritchie Centre, Monash Institute of Medical Research
• Dr Len Kliman – Epworth Freemasons Hospital Melbourne
• Professor Ian Macreadie – CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies (Vic)
• Leah Magliano – Hobart Private Hospital, NUM
• Professor Helen McCutcheon – Head School of Nursing & Midwifery (SA)
• Dr Peter McDougall – Chief of Medicine, Director, Department of Neonatology, The Royal Children’s Hospital
• Meredith McIntyre – Monash University, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery
• Dr Lisa McKenna – Monash University, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery
• Dr Karen Mizia – Ultrasound Care
• Professor Jeremy Oats – Director, Gynaecology & CPIU, The Royal Women’s Hospital (Vic)
• Dr C. Andrew Ramsden - Director Newborn Services, Monash Medical Centre
• Professor Karen Simmer - Professor of Newborn Medicine, University of Western Australia
• Dr Gavin Sacks - fertility specialist and co-director of the IVFAustralia Miscarriage Programme
• Dr Anne Sneddon – Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Canberra Hospital
• Dr Brendan Steele - Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sandringham & District Memorial Hospital
• Dr Christine Tippett – Director Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit, Monash Medical Centre
• Dr Stephen Tong - Clinician and Research Scientist, Monash Institute of Medical Research Monash University
• Professor Brian Trudinger – Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Westmead Hospital (NSW)
• Professor Euan Wallace – Clinical Director, Centre for Women’s Health Research, Monash Institute Medical Research

The Bonnie Babes Foundation is a free grief counselling service for families that have experienced the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss or prematurity and related issues such as infertility.