Hospital Visits

Tamika and Jasmine

We have members that can visit you while you're in hospital - please ask the hospital staff to contact the office and we will try to have someone call on you.

'Sometimes it's nice to talk to someone who's been there before' Chris.

View other SAMBA services available to all members.

Did you know?

'The Multiple Birth Allowance is currently paid to families who have triplets, quadruplets or more children who were born during the same birth & for whom they receive Family Tax Benefit. It is paid until these children turn six years old' (HOM Working Group Report, May - April 2006). The HOM working group has prepared a submission to extend this allowance beyond the age of six....read more (report will open as a Word document).......

Two Plus & Us Support Groups

Twins at Playgroup

Two Plus & Us Playgroups are held in various locations around South Australia and are informal get together's to provide members with the opportunity to socialise and provide a play opportunity for children.

Find out when and where your local Two Plus & Us Playgroup meets, using the Metropolitan Playgroups Guide or the Country Playgroups Guide.

Did you know?

AMBA's 34th Convention occurred, on Oct 27th - 30th, 2006 in Melbourne. Call into the office to view the report.

AMBA elected a new Chairperson Ann Marie Harli.

AMBA's convention for 2007 will be held in Newcastle, New South Wales.

SAMBA External Links

SAMBA has compiled this list of links as a service to it's members. However it takes no responsibility for the content or opinions expressed in the sites. If you find a broken link please contact the webmaster to report it. Thanks.

Other Australian Multiple Birth Associations

Perth & Districts Multiple Birth Association - has an open forum with interesting topics. (May require some plug ins to view the banner).
http://www.mbawa.org.au/

AMBA - The Australian Multiple Birth Association. Includes a forum (all SAMBA members have access, contact office for details).
www.amba.asn.au

Overseas Multiple Birth Associations

MOST online is an American site for mothers of super twins (triplets, quads, quins etc). Some interesting articles and a section of their forum is open for you to read.
http://www.mostonline.org/

NZ Multiple Birth Association. News articles are interesting and current.
http://www.nzmba.info/index.php

Canadian Multiple Birth Association. Has some great articles and stories. Partially open forum. http://www.multiplebirthscanada.org/english/index.php

Bereavement Support

Teddy Love Club. A volunteer organisation that donates teddies to parents who's lives are touched by tragedy. (Warning you may have to scroll sideways to view the homepage).
http://www.teddyloveclub.org.au/index.htm

Surviving Twin - contains some useful links
http://www.upnaway.com/%7Ejunem/index.html

Other Sites of Interest

Twin to Twin Transfusion - Mater Health Services (provides information about TTTS)
http://www.mater.org.au/healthServices/clinical/mfm/ttts.asp

Twin Registry - Maintains a database of Australian twins willing to participate in research. There are more then 31,000 registered pairs of twins. Has some useful information about twins and how they are formed including diagrams.
http://www.twins.org.au/index.php?page=0

Australian Breastfeeding Association - for information about breastfeeding. http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/

The Parenting Sanctuary. This forum will allow you to catch up with other multiple birth parents. http://www.theparentingsanctuary.net/multiples/

Photographers Images Used

Champagne Portraits
http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~champort/

Photography by Christine Hutchinson
http://www.weddingsa.com/hutchinson/

Community Webs

The SAMBA website was created by a University of South Australia student as part of the Online Community Engagement Program.
http://www.communitywebs.org/~wiki/wiki/index.php/Online_Community_Engagement

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