Welcome to the
Victorian Infant Collaborative Study
Our mission is to better understand the long-term health outcomes faced by the tiniest and most immature babies and to improve their overall health and well-being later in life.
Collaboration
between the Royal Women’s Hospital, Mercy Hospital for Women, Monash Medical Centre, the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Longitudinal Studies
and follow-up of babies born prematurely and their journey through childhood into adulthood.
Translate Knowledge
more widely to empower carers and individuals born preterm, and to support clinicians and health care workers to advocate for better understanding and ongoing care and follow-up.
Our Studies
Latest News & Updates
Tatiana’s Fight to Survive
Born at 24 weeks and 5 days and only weighing 604 g, Tatiana’s first glimpse at the world wasn’t going to be an easy one. Tatiana and Jedidiah MacCartney show good things come in big and small packages…
The White Family
Mark and Penny White with Brooke born 1995 at 38 weeks, Dale born 1997, at 23 weeks weight 540 g, spent 118 days in the nursery and went home on oxygen…
Abbie’s Story
Everything was progressing normally, or so I had been told, even though I had been bleeding for what felt like the duration of the pregnancy. I’d had several early scans just to monitor the bleeding, but no cause was ever determined…
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