Sophie Smith

It's not me, it's running for premature babies.

So we called it running for premature babies.

Lots of people came and ran with me and they have now, we've been, this is now 20 years later, we've now raised over $12 million and we've provided equipment to hospitals all over Australia, every state and territory, regional remote hospitals through to hospitals in our major cities with big neonatal intensive care units.

maternity units in the Northern Territory, far from major hospitals.

We've also funded neonatal transfer services.

We've donated three neonatal ambulances, some equipment.

to take onto flights in the Northern Territory with CareFlight so that they can retrieve babies from very remote locations and bring them for neonatal intensive care.

And it's estimated that over 20,000 babies have now benefited from running for premature babies.

Yes.

So the first year, we ran the first half marathon.

I loved it.

And we had shirts printed and I put Henry Jasper and Evan's handprints on the back.

And I told everybody to remember that they can give you a push in the race.

And it was just wonderful.

Anyway, we ran that first race.

That was fantastic.

And then the second year, we did it all over again.

But then I was pregnant with Owen.

So that was, yeah, we were...

That was just amazing.