Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey"[This book] focuses on your experiences, feelings, and relationships around the delivery, hospitalization, homecoming, and long-term parenting of your premature baby and child. It provides suggestions and support for coping, adjusting, and finding your way. While every family's jouney is unique, you ahre many of the same hopes, fears, struggles, and triumphs with outher parents of premature babies."--Page 4 of cover |
Contents
CHAPTER | 7 |
CHAPTER | 21 |
CHAPTER THREE | 61 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 95 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 117 |
CHAPTER | 151 |
Breast Care When You Arent BreastFeeding | 170 |
Fatigue | 176 |
Settling in at Home | 431 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 457 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | 491 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 521 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 571 |
Discovering Disabilities | 597 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN | 635 |
CHAPTER TWENTY | 675 |
Relaxation | 184 |
Acclimating to the NICU | 189 |
Becoming a Parent in the NICU | 231 |
CHAPTER NINE | 273 |
CHAPTER | 319 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 359 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 397 |
Considering Another Pregnancy | 729 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO | 751 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE | 789 |
Appendices | 817 |
from the Colorado Collective for Medical Decisions | 879 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey |
| Authors | Deborah L. Davis, Mara Tesler Stein |
| Publisher | Fulcrum Publishing, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1555915116, 9781555915117 |
| Length | 903 pages |
| Subjects | › › Family & Relationships / Children with Special Needs Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Infants & Toddlers |
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