Preemies Second Edition

Author : Dana Wechsler Linden,Emma Trenti Paroli,Mia Wechsler Doron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781476735559

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Preemies - Second Edition by Dana Wechsler Linden,Emma Trenti Paroli,Mia Wechsler Doron Pdf

The comprehensive “Dr. Spock”-like reference that is both reassuring and realistic—now updated to reflect the many advances in neonatology. Preemies, Second Edition is the only parents’ reference resource of its kind—delivering up-to-the-minute information on medical care in a warm, caring, and engaging voice. Authors Dana Wechsler Linden and Emma Trenti Paroli are parents who have “been there.” Together with neonatologist Mia Wechsler Doron, they answer the dozens of questions that parents will have at every stage—from high-risk pregnancy through preemie hospitalization, to homecoming and the preschool years—imparting a vast, detailed store of knowledge in clear language that all readers can understand. Preemies, Second Edition covers topics related to premature birth, including: What are your risk factors for having a premature baby? Can you do something to delay early labor? What do doctors know about you baby’s outlook during her first minutes and days of life? How will your preemie’s progress be monitored? How do you cope with a long hospitalization? Are there special preparations for you baby’s homecoming? What kind of stimulation during the first year gives your baby the best chance? Will your preemie grow up healthy? Normal?

Author : Kasey Mathews
Publisher : Hatherleigh Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781578264247

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Preemie by Kasey Mathews Pdf

In her early thirties, Kasey Mathews had it all: a loving husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, and a second baby on the way. But what seemed a perfect life was shattered when she went into labor four months early, delivering her one-pound, eleven-ounce daughter, Andie. The first time Kasey was wheeled into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), nothing prepared her for what she saw: a tiny, fragile baby in a tangle of tubes and wires. All at once, Kasey was confronted with a new and terrifying reality that would test the limits of love, family, and motherhood. In this riveting, honest, and often humorous memoir, Preemie chronicles the journey of one tiny baby’s tenacious struggle to hold on to life and the mother who ultimately grew with her. From hospital waiting rooms to the offices of alternative practitioners, from ski slopes to Symphony Hall, Kasey tries to make meaning of her daughter’s birth and eventually comes to learn that gifts come in all sizes and all forms, and sometimes... right on time.

Author : Martha Sears,Robert W. Sears,William Sears,James Sears
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780316052030

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The Premature Baby Book by Martha Sears,Robert W. Sears,William Sears,James Sears Pdf

This major new addition to the Sears Parenting Library is a comprehensive, authoritative, and reassuring guide for parents of premature babies. 20 line drawings & photos.

Author : Susan Ludington-Hoe
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307813381

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Kangaroo Care by Susan Ludington-Hoe Pdf

Give Your Preterm Baby the Best Possible Start in Life If you have just given birth to a preterm infant, you and your baby both face special challenges. Parents long to help their baby but often feel isolated frightened by hospital procedures. Now there is wonderful news for both babies and parents. Kangaroo Care, a technique pioneered in leading neonatal centers worldwide, gives you a unique role: a special way of holding your infant that provides crucial health benefits—including shorter hospital stays. Based on ground-breaking research, Kangaroo Care is a step-by-step guide to bringing these benefits to your baby—even if your neonatal unit does not yet have a Kangaroo Care program. It explains: • Why Kangaroo Care enhances your baby’s development • How to use the technique even if your infant requires a ventilator or an incubator • How to understand your baby’s signals of distress or comfort—and how to respond • How you can work with the neonatal staff to provide the best for your baby between your visits • How to involve fathers as well as mothers • All the proven results of Kangaroo Care—including a more relaxed, healthier, and contented baby The complete parents’ guide to the revolutionary new treatment for preterm babies: Kangaroo Care

Author : Sandra M. Lane,Brenda S. Miles
Publisher : American Psychological Association
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433819667

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The Moment You Were Born by Sandra M. Lane,Brenda S. Miles Pdf

The Moment You Were Born is a gentle and soothing story for you and your baby as you share moments in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Read about the doctors and nurses providing care, about the machines that beep and hum, and about life all around. Reading and talking to your baby are ways to provide a loving connection during your time in the NICU. Your voice can comfort and caress, and strengthen the bond between you and your baby. Includes a "Note to Parents and Caregivers" with more ideas about sharing the NICU experience and staying close to your baby.

Author : Karen Lasby,Tammy Sherrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1999044304

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Preemie Care by Karen Lasby,Tammy Sherrow Pdf

An essential resource for parents of premature babies. The birth of a new baby is a time full of joy and wonder. But when your baby is born premature, that joy also comes with stresses and challenges. Written for parents, but full of practical advice for health care professionals alike, Preemie Care helps ease the unique preemie journey to health, with a comprehensive guide to the first year of life. Leading neonatal nurse specialists Karen Lasby and Tammy Sherrow draw on their decades of experience, empowering you with the knowledge and resources to give your little one the best possible start in life--in the NICU and beyond. In Preemie Care, you will learn: - How to care for yourself and your baby while in the NICU - What to expect at the time of discharge, and how to prepare for the journey home - Strategies to foster your baby's health and prevent illness - Everything you need to know about feeding--from the breast, bottle, tube, and spoon - How to support and stimulate your baby at each key developmental phase - Tips for self-care during this challenging year - And much, much more, including stories from other preemie parents Having a premature baby can feel like an unexpected journey on rough seas. With extensive and up-to-date information about how to look after your little one, Preemie Care will be a life preserver through these tumultuous waters and will help steer you confidently through the first year of your baby's life.

Author : Melody Schreiber
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781612198613

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What We Didn't Expect by Melody Schreiber Pdf

Every year, 400,000 families in the United States welcome premature babies ... Ten percent of babies born in the U.S. are preemies. But that one word, "preemie," encompasses a range of medical and cultural experiences. There are textbooks, medical-ish guidebooks, and the occasional memoir to turn to ... but no book that collects personal experiences from the many people who have parented, cared for, or been preemies themselves. Until now. In What We Didn't Expect, journalist Melody Schreiber brings together a chorus of acclaimed writers and thinkers to share their diverse stories of having or being premature babies. The stories here cover everything from life-changing tests of faith to navigating the red tape of healthcare bureuacracy; from overcoming unimaginable grief to surviving and thriving against all odds. The result is a moving, heartfelt book, and a crucial and informative resource for anyone who has, or is about to have, the experience of dealing with a premature birth.

Author : Nikki Bradford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1552976556

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Your Premature Baby by Nikki Bradford Pdf

"Your Premature Baby" is the definitive guide to every aspect of nurturing a child who is born too soon. Reassuring and frank, it informs and guides parents right from their baby's too-early birth into the growing years. Full color.

Author : Jennifer Gunter
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780738214146

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The Preemie Primer by Jennifer Gunter Pdf

Having a premature baby -- a baby born before the thirty-seventh week of pregnancy -- can be a crash course in both medicine and health economics, not just in parenting. Parents face complex information, difficult decisions, and overwhelming grief and worry -- with challenges that often extend well beyond those early days and weeks. As an ob/gyn, Dr. Jennifer Gunter has delivered hundreds of premature babies, but as a mother of preemie triplets, she also understands the heartbreak and challenges of prematurity. The Preemie Primer is a comprehensive resource, covering topics from delivery, hospitalization, and preemie development to parenting multiples, handling health issues, and finding special-needs programs. Compassionate, engaging, and medically grounded, The Preemie Primer is the first book on prematurity to combine the insight of a doctor with the experience of a mom.

Author : The American Academy of Pediatrics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1610020480

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Understanding the NICU by The American Academy of Pediatrics Pdf

"Features family stories and guidance"--Cover.

Author : Kristin Moan,Eric Moan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1634890701

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My Preemie Baby Book by Kristin Moan,Eric Moan Pdf

Author : Amy E. Tracy
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 042516506X

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Your Premature Baby and Child by Amy E. Tracy Pdf

Medical professionals who are mothers of premature babies offer guidance for similarly situated parents, starting from bringing the baby home to putting the child in school. Illustrations.

Author : Sarah DiGregorio
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062820311

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Early by Sarah DiGregorio Pdf

"Sarah DiGregorio delves deeply into the fraught world of premature birth. With bracing honesty, she recounts her own story and the stories of other women who draw on the power of love and meld it with cutting-edge science, as they struggle to save the lives of their newborns. This book opens our minds and hearts to a world that is rarely seen with such clarity."--Jerome Groopman, MD, Recanati Professor at Harvard Medical School and author of The Anatomy of Hope The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a place made of stories--where humanity, ethics, and science collide in dramatic and deeply personal ways, as parents, physicians, and nurses grapple with sometimes unanswerable questions raised by premature birth. When does life begin? When and how should life end? And what does it mean to be human? For the first time, journalist Sarah DiGregorio explores the fascinating evolution of neonatology and its significant breakthroughs--modern medicine can now save infants at five and a half months gestation who weigh less than a pound, when only fifty years ago there were few effective treatments for premature babies. Weaving her own story and those of other parents and NICU clinicians with in-depth reporting, DiGregorio examines the history and future of one of the most boundary-pushing medical disciplines: how the first American NICU was set up as a sideshow on the Coney Island boardwalk; how modern advancements have allowed viability to be pushed to a mere twenty-two weeks; the political, cultural, and ethical issues that continue to arise in the face of dramatic scientific developments; and the clinicians at the front lines who are moving to new frontiers. Eye-opening and vital, Early uses premature birth as a window into our own humanity.

Author : Kimberly Powell,Kim Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0312272723

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Living Miracles by Kimberly Powell,Kim Wilson Pdf

Twenty-two engrossing stories of babies born prematurely, written by those who felt the agony and the elation the most--their parents. In painstaking and heartfelt detail, these parents shore their ordeals: their fears, their joys, the stories of where they turned for help, their tips and most important, their triumphs. Meet babies like: Samuel Warren, who was born at 1 pound 8 ounces when his mother went into preterm labor Bo Smith, the miracle baby born at only 8 inches long after his mother suffered an antibody disorder Sara Stomseth, born at 1 pound 15 ounces before modern advances in meonatology and giving no chance of living Ryan White, the ultimate proof that parents should never give up hope Living Miracles includes a complete glossary of premature-baby medical terms and is organized by the weeks of gestation of the baby at birth from 23 to 36.

Author : Saroj Saigal
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Birth weight, Low
ISBN : 9781460249130

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Preemie Voices by Saroj Saigal Pdf

The birth of a very premature baby is a shock for parents. The immediate anxiety about whether their infant will survive quickly leads to concerns about their child's future quality of life. In this inspiring and informative book, young people who were born weighing less than two pounds, three ounces provide candid and personal stories about their lives, challenges and accomplishments. Now in their thirties, these men and women were cared for at McMaster University Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, soon after the introduction of newborn intensive care. Dr. Saroj Saigal, a renowned and award-winning neonatologist at McMaster, adds several chapters that outline the history of neonatology, describes recent medical and technological innovations, and explains how many extremely premature babies go on to enjoy fulfilling lives. Her chapters give the answer of a caring specialist to the inevitable question, "What next?" Written for a lay audience, Preemie Voices will move you to tears of admiration and amazement at the remarkable resilience of these tiny survivors. This unique collection of stories will not only provide encouragement and hope for parents who have given birth to a tiny preemie, but will inspire others who will be in awe at the achievements of these infants - both with and without disabilities - who were born too early. Watch the video documentary of a few participants from Preemie Voices at www.saigalpreemievoices.com...