Rachel Stanfield-Porter lost two babies before she was able to have a healthy child. Struck by the fragility of life, and galvanised by her previous tragedies and the lack of support available, she founded the Bonnie Babes Foundation. Her mission was to help other families struggling with the emotional pain she and her husband had experienced and to reduce the number of babies that die each year. So in 1994, while pregnant again, she began the Foundation from her lounge room. She established support services and counselling, and relentlessly pursued sponsors to help fund resources for distribution to families and through hospitals. Fourteen years later the organisation has been overwhelmingly successful in reaching out to the 50,000 Australian families each year who experience the traumatic loss of a baby and providing vital equipment to hospitals to help save the lives of newborns. Rachel now manages a team of 1,000 volunteers. She has set up a free crisis line that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and has established branches throughout Australia and in New Zealand, UK and the US. With limited resources she has built one of Australia’s leading authorities in the area of perinatal loss, grief counselling and pregnancy loss issues.