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Received: 8 February 2018

Accepted: 30 May 2018

First Online: 11 June 2018

Authors’ information

: Sarah Jane Melov, RM RN, Master of Nursing, Grad. Dip. Midwifery, Women’s Health Research MFM, Clinical Midwife Consultant, Westmead Institute for Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Westmead Hospital.Irene Tsang, RN, BN, Master of Health Science(CDM), Research Nurse, Dep. Surgery, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospital Network.Ralph Cohen, MB BS, BMedSci, MS, FRACS (Paed), Clinical Professor of Surgery, The University of Sydney, Dep. of Paediatric Surgery, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospital Network.Nadia Badawi, PhD, FRACP, Macquarie Group Foundation Professor and Chair of Cerebral Palsy, Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute, Medical Director, Co-Head, Grace Centre for Newborn Intensive Care, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospital Network, Clinical Professor, Paediatrics & Child Health, The University of Sydney.Karen Walker, PhD MClinNurs BAppSc (Nurs) RGN RSCN, Clinical Associate Professor, Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, The University of Sydney, Senior Research Fellow, IMPACT for Cerebral Palsy, Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute, Research Manager, Grace Centre for Newborn Intensive Care, The Children’s Hospital Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospital Network.Soundappan S.V. Soundappan, MB BS, MS(Gen Surg), MCh (Paed), FRACS (Paed), Senior Lecturer Paediatrics & Child Health, The University of Sydney, Surgeon, Dep. of Surgery, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospital Network.Thushari Indika Alahakoon, PhD, MB BS, FRANZCOG, CMFM, DDU, Head of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Westmead Institute for Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Clinical Senior Lecturer Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology, The University of Sydney.

: The study was approved in 2016 by the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network Human Research Ethics Committee (reference no 113) and Western Sydney Local Health District (reference no 4691).

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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