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BABY Tyler with his parents at the Birth Tree plaque. Tyler spent time in Frankston Hospital after getting sick at just six weeks old. Picture: Supplied
Money raised for nursery equipment THE Rotary Peninsula 2.0 Birth Tree project has raised $5000 to go towards the special care nursery at Frankston Hospital. A plaque was recently unveiled as part of the project at Montague Park, with the names of 69 babies born in 2018. One of those names was of young Tyler, who was helped by the hospital as an infant. Tyler’s mother Kelly Perkins said that Frankston Hospital had helped her son when he contracted meningitis at six weeks old.
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“When Tyler was born he had to spend a few days in the Special Care Nursery on CPAP, a breathing machine, before he could go home,” Ms Perkins said. “Because Tyler was so young [when he contracted meningitis] he had to go to Frankston Hospital for five days.” Tyler is now a healthy one-year-old. Ms Perkins said that they decided to participate in the Birth Tree because the hospital deserved their support. “I thought it would be a good idea
not only to support the Special Care Nursery and what they did, not just for me but it will be quite sentimental for him when he gets older to understand exactly what everyone went through,” she said. Special care nursery nurse unit manager Alison Conroy Joyce thanked Rotary Peninsula 2.0 for their support. “This new equipment goes a long way to help us provide the very best of care to babies in Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula.”
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