Offers information and personal stories on a broad range of issues associated with premature birth including what to expect in labour and delivery, parenting in the neonatal intensive care unit, coping with complications, how prematurity affects development, taking your baby hom…
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 of…
Offers parents of premature babies an overview of what they can expect immediately following birth, during their child's stay in the NICU, after coming home, and through the toddler years. The author includes her own reflections on caring for her premature sons.
From an ob/gyn and a mom to preemie boys, essential advice on raising premature babies from birth through toddlerhood.