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Breastfeeding Challenges Made Easy
for Late Preterm Infants: the Go-To Guide for Nurses and Lactation Consultants. Sandra Cole, $93.95
Evidence-based research underscores the
importance of breastfeeding for the healthy development of late preterm
infants, yet significant challenges can impede its success. This is a
groundbreaking, problem-solving guide to the most effective techniques for
breastfeeding this vulnerable population. Written for lactation consultants,
NICU nurses, obstetrical nurses, and nurse-midwives, the book offers clear,
simple, evidence-based solutions to the distinct breastfeeding difficulties
affecting late preterm infants.
The guide describes the characteristics
of late preterm infants and the physiological challenges-often invisible and
overlooked by health care providers-caused by disturbances of respiratory,
metabolic, neurologic, and immunologic functions. These problems are often
exacerbated by poor breastfeeding and result in 13% of hospital readmissions by
late preterm infants. The book examines maternal conditions that affect
breastfeeding success and provides detailed, easy-to-follow instructions for
the most effective breastfeeding techniques. It describes specific strategies
health care professionals can take to overcome breastfeeding difficulties,
including proper positioning and latch technique, the use of breast pumps and
other helpful equipment, supplemental feedings, and more. Pictures that illustrate
correct procedures clarify specific techniques, and user-friendly patient
teaching guides further encourage successful breastfeeding. The book also
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Breastfeeding
the Late Preterm Infant: Improving Care and Outcomes. Marsha
Walker, $23.95
In this well-referenced monograph, Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC describes
the late preterm infant, discusses contributors to late preterm
birth, and explains the importance of the last six weeks of gestation.
She discusses the impact of birth interventions on breastfeeding
the late preterm infant and explains why mothers of late preterm
infants may be at increased risk of delayed lactogenesis II. Includes:
- Breastfeeding management guidelines for the late preterm infant
- Issues such as hypothermia, hypoglycemia, respiratory instability,
hypotonia, and immature feeding skills, and their impact on breastfeeding
- How to provide latch assistance, assess feedings at the breast,
when to supplement, how to use bottles and artificial nipples,
how to help others initiate and maintain maternal milk supply,
and ways to optimize milk production
- Information on individualized feeding plans for moms to follow
after discharge, including a sample plan.
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Coming Home from the NICU: a Guide
for Supporting Families in Early Infant Care and Development. Kathleen VandenBerg & Marci Hanson, $46.50
For families of an infant leaving the
NICU, nothing’s more exciting — and challenging — than the critical transition to
home life with their baby. Support the NICU-to-home transition with this
accessible book, the complete guide to helping parents meet their baby’s
special needs and promote optimal development in the first year after
homecoming.
Invaluable for a wide range of
professionals — including early interventionists, OTs, PTs, public health nurses,
physicians, and social workers — this book is the key to providing
family-centered, developmentally supportive guidance in the months after the
NICU. Professionals will deepen their understanding of the emotional and
physical challenges of the NICU experience, and they’ll get in-depth guidance
on how to support parents effectively.
To illuminate the incredible strength of
parents of premature infants, the book includes powerful stories of real
families who share their experiences of supporting and loving their babies in
the NICU and beyond. The book comes with a CD-ROM with printable handouts
to share with families and lists of resources, websites, and organizations that
provide additional information and support. With this definitive guide from two
leading experts in infant development and early intervention, professionals
will provide sensitive, effective support and guidance to new parents as they
make a smooth transition to home life and develop strong relationships with
their babies. |
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The
Early Birds: a Mother’s Story of Our Times. Jenny
Minton, $17.95
In the winter of 2002, Jenny Minton delivered twin boys. She was
thirty-one weeks pregnant, and her boys, conceived through in vitro
fertilization, were more than two months early. Both boys were
placed on immediate life support, and for sixty-four days they
hovered, critically ill, in the neonatal intensive care unit of
a New York City hospital … With impeccable restraint, in
sharp, unforgettable scenes, Minton takes readers into the heart
of an experience that is both singular and—with a significant
increase in twin births over the last twenty years, and a commensurate
rise in premature births—increasingly common … She
offers moving interrogations of science and fate, and the role
of providence in conception. The Early Birds describes
the glorious triumphs of ordinary life, even as it wrestles with
the unanswerable questions that remain.
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Feeding and
Nutrition in the Preterm Infant. Elizabeth Jones & Caroline
King, editors, $81.95
A practical handbook for healthcare professionals
that covers all aspects of pre-term nutrition, using evidence-based
information to promote safe and effective practice. Readers will
discover problem-solving strategies, interventions, and information
on meeting the nutritional requirements of pre-term infants. |
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Fragile Beginnings: Discoveries and
Triumphs in the Newborn ICU. Adam Wolfberg, $19.00
This gripping medical narrative brings
readers into the complex world of the newborn intensive care, where dedicated
doctors and nurses do all they can to coax life into their tiny patients. As a
specialist in high-risk obstetrics, and the father of a child born prematurely,
Adam Wolfberg explores the scientific, ethical, and emotional questions raised
by such fragile beginnings, from the frontlines of the NICU and cutting-edge
laboratories — and from his own daughter’s bedside. |
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Human Milk
in the NICU: Policy into Practice. Lois
Arnold, $145.95
This unique text covers the use of
banked, or stored, human milk in the hospital for premature
and sick infants, and discusses the advantages of human milk
feedings and the elements of hazard or risk introduced by the
use of formulas, including rationales for the use of both mother’s
own milk and donor human milk in the NICU.
This reference also highlights domestic
health policies that impact the use of human milk for sick and
fragile infants, international models and policies for milk banking,
the history of donor milk banking and how it came into being and
ethical issues surrounding the delivery of milk banking services
and donor human milk in the NICU.
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Infant Massage: a Handbook for Loving Parents.
Vimala Schneider McClure, $24.00
In this completely updated version of her renowned
classic, Vimala McClure, founder of the International Association of Infant
Massage, and its premier proponent in the United States, helps you master the
techniques of infant massage so you can incorporate this joyful and wonderful
healing art into your baby’s life. She shows you why a daily massage can be one
of the greatest gifts you give your child... and yourself. For generations,
mothers the world over have known that the soft stroke of their hands soothes,
calms, and communicates their love to their babies. Now scientific research
proves that massage can do all that and more.
In Infant Massage, McClure shares how massage
benefits children — easing discomfort, releasing tension, helping premature
infants gain weight, even helping asthmatic children improve breathing
function. She explains each step of the massage process with simple
easy-to-follow instructions and delightful photographs demonstrating each
stroke. You’ll also find:
- Specific routines tailored to help relieve colic, fever, chest
and nasal congestion
- Modified instructions for premature infants and babies with
special needs
- Helpful hints on dealing with crying and fussing
- Lullabies, rhymes, and games to enhance the massage experience
- Guidance for teaching children about "good touch"
- A special chapter dedicated to fathers
- Compassionate advice for foster and adoptive parents
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Intensive Parenting: Surviving the
Emotional Journey through the NICU. Deborah Davis
& Mara Tesler Stein, $23.95
INTENSIVE PARENTING focuses on the
experiences, feelings, and relationship issues that families face when a baby
is admitted to the Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU). While other books
explain a baby’s medical conditions and treatments, this book explores the
parents’ experience in the NICU. By focusing solely on the NICU parenting
experience, this book offers a concise, accessible, and unique guide. |
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Juniper: the Girl Who Was Born Too Soon. Kelley
and Thomas French, $34.00
Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks
gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of
a Barbie doll. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly
translucent, and through her chest you could see her flickering heart. Babies
like Juniper, born at the edge of viability, trigger the question: Which is the
greater act of love — to save her, or to let her go?
Kelley and Thomas French chose to fight for Juniper's
life, and this is their incredible tale. In one exquisite memoir, the authors
explore the border between what is possible and what is right. They marvel at
the science that conceived and sustained their daughter and the love that made
the difference. They probe the bond between a mother and a baby, between a
husband and a wife. They trace the journey of their family from its fragile
beginning to the miraculous survival of their now thriving daughter. |
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Kangaroo
Babies: a Different Way of Mothering. Nathalie Charpak,
$28.95
Providing a history and a beautifully
illustrated practical guide to kangaroo mothering, this book explains
the approach that is changing the way mothers relate to newborn
babies and improving the way hospitals treat premature babies and
their parents. |
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Kangaroo
Care: the Best You Can Do to Help Your Preterm Infant. Susan
Ludington-Hoe & Susan Golant, $22.00
Based on research and techniques pioneered in leading neonatal centres
worldwide, Kangaroo Care is an informative guide to the benefits
of this special way of holding and nurturing the small infant. It
explains:
- Why Kangaroo Care enhances
the pre-term baby's development
- How to use the technique with infants
who require a ventilator or incubator
- How to read the baby's signals - and
how to respond
- How to work with the NICU staff
- How to involve fathers and grandparents
as well as mothers
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Kangaroo
Mother Care DVD, Volumes I and II. Nils Bergman, $43.95
Together on one DVD, these two videos outline the benefits of skin-to-skin
care in the early days and months of life for term and pre-term
babies. Includes a CD with a PowerPoint presentation as well as
pre and post-tests suitable for training health care providers.
Kangaroo Mother Care I: Rediscover the Natural
Way to Care for Your Newborn Baby (26 minutes)
Kangaroo Mother Care II: Restoring the Original
Paradigm for Infant Care & Breastfeeding (52 minutes)
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The Moment You Were Born: a Story for You and Your
Premature Baby. Sandra Lane & Brenda Miles, Illustrated
by Shelly Hehenberger, $14.50
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. |
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My Brother is a Preemie. Abraham Chuzzlewit & Jos.
A. Vitterito II, $22.95
My Sister is a Preemie. Abraham Chuzzlewit & Jos.
A. Vitterito II, $22.95
Having an infant in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is
full of a flurry of emotions overshadowed by anxiety. An admission to the NICU
is not anticipated and therefore can be a very trying experience. Explaining
the hospitalization of the baby to the other children in your home can be
challenging. The baby's siblings may be too young to understand, fearful of
hospitals, or even upset that you are spending more time at the hospital than
at home. This short book can serve as a light introduction to the NICU and
foster further discussion with your other children or young relatives. It is
best read together, ideally before a visit to the NICU. In addition to visiting
the hospital, establish some routines and alone time with your children at home
to help ease the transition as your new baby grows and heals in the intensive
care unit. |
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Noah's Garden: When Someone You Love is in the
Hospital. Mo Johnson, illustrated by Annabelle Josse, $19.00
A hospital courtyard garden — and a vivid imagination —
are a haven for a young boy as he waits for his baby sister to be well enough
to join him.
Noah and his family are living in The Children's Hospital
because his new sister, Jessica, was born with a serious medical condition.
Normal family life is suspended indefinitely for Noah, but in the true spirit
of childhood, he spends his days in the hospital garden, creating an imaginary
world, longing for the day when Jess can join him. |
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100
Questions & Answers about Your High-Risk Pregnancy.
Elizabeth Platt, Betty Campbell, Andrea Tetreau, & Michael Pinette,
$21.95
100 Questions and Answers about Your
High-Risk Pregnancy provides authoritative, practical answers
to the most common questions posed by at-risk expecting parents.
The text covers topics such as testing, mother's health, fetal health,
complications, prevention and treatment, and physical and psychological
coping. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with
the physical and emotional turmoil of high-risk pregnancy. |
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Parenting
Your Premature Baby and Child: the Emotional Journey. Deborah
Davis & Mara Tesler Stein, $35.95
There
are many good books that explain your premature baby's medical or
developmental conditions and treatments... this book is different.
It focuses on your experiences, feelings and relationships around
the delivery, hospitalization, homecoming and long-term parenting
of your premature baby and child. Parenting Your Premature Baby
and Child provides suggestions and support for coping, adjusting
and finding your way." |
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Preemie Care: a Guide to Navigating the First Year
with Your Premature Baby. Karen Lasby & Tammy Sherrow, $28.95 
Having a
premature baby can feel like an unexpected journey on rough seas. With
up-to-date and extensive information about how to look after your little
one, Preemie Care will be a life raft through these tumultuous waters and steer you
confidently through the first year of your baby’s life. 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 and/or
bottle
- How to support and stimulate your baby at each key developmental
phase
- Tips for self-care during this challenging year
Written for parents, but full of practical advice for
healthcare professionals too, 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 at home. |
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Preemie: Lessons in Love, Life and Motherhood. Kasey Mathews, $19.95
With a two-year-old at home and a baby born four
months early (weighing one pound, eleven ounces), Kasey Mathews was thrown into
a world unlike anything she had ever imagined. PREEMIE chronicles the journey
of one tiny baby’s tenacious struggle and the mother who grew with her. |
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The Preemie
Parent's Companion: The Essential Guide to Caring for Your Premature
Baby in the Hospital, at Home, and Through the First Years, Susan
L. Madden, $21.95
Susan Madden invites parents to become an integral part of their preemie's
medical care while in the NICU. In fact, she goes further to provide
essential advice in regards to caring for your baby at home and gives
a detailed look into the future at the long term effects of prematurity.
She has succeeded in creating an encouraging and comprehensive guide
for families meeting the special challenges of premature birth.
"This book helps parents to meet the high needs of the premature
baby and thereby enjoy the unique rewards of this special type of
parenting." — William Sears, M.D. |
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The Preemie Primer. Jennifer Gunter, $21.00
A complete guide for parents of premature babies — from birth through the toddler years and beyond. |
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Preemies: the Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies. Dana Weschler Linden, Emma Trenti Paroli & Mia Weschler Doron, $32.50
Preemies is a comprehensive reference that is both reassuring and realistic, delivering current and practical 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's hospitalization, to homecoming and the preschool years — imparting a vast, detailed store of knowledge in clear language that all readers can understand. |
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The Premature
Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know about Your Premature Baby from
Birth to Age One. William Sears, Martha Sears, James Sears &
Robert Sears, $21.00
This newest guide from the Sears family focuses on the essential needs
of premature babies and offers the tools and advice parents need to
become comfortable with their often bewildering new role.
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Understanding My Signals: Help for Parents of
Premature Infants. Brenda Hussey, $6.25
The Understanding My Signals booklet provides
information for parents on typical behavioral responses of premature infants.
It was written to help parents understand how their young infant communicates.
This User's Guide is written for individuals who work with premature infants
and their families including nurses, and allied health professionals as well as
professionals from the fields of social work, education, and psychology. The
User's Guide provides guidance in communicating the information originally
presented in the booklet to parents. It is the belief of the author that
parents integrate and use information more effectively when they have the
opportunity to discuss and process the information with a knowledgeable
professional. |
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Understanding the NICU: What Parents of Preemies and
Other Hospitalized Newborns Need to Know. American Academy of Pediatrics,
$22.99
Most parents do not expect to begin life with their new
baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). They often feel lost and
powerless amidst this new world of medical vocabulary, technology, and numerous
health care providers.
Understanding the NICU will guide parents through the
NICU journey, help them communicate with members of the NICU team, and learn
about their baby’s condition so that they can ask questions and participate as
a valuable partner in their baby’s care. It will also provide them important
information about how to care for their baby after they leave the hospital and
head home with their little one.
Included in the book are inspirational stories from
parents who have had their own NICU experiences, bringing hope and comfort to
other parents with an infant who is hospitalized.
Understanding the NICU provides you with everything
parents need to know about
- Common NICU equipment and tests
- Common medical problems for babies in the NICU
- Special health issues for premature infants
- Who's who in the NICU and how to work with the team
- Mother-baby factors: effects on newborn health
- Feeding their baby
- Parenting in the NICU
- Birth defects and surgery
- Heading home from the NICU
- Home at last
- Caring for their baby in the first year
Intensive care is stressful by nature and overwhelming at
times. Reading this book and learning about what happens in the NICU will help
parents gain confidence and feel more reassured about their baby’s care in the
NICU — and at home. |
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Your Premature
Baby: the First Five Years. Nikki Bradford, $19.95
The definitive guide to caring for a child born too soon, this compassionate
and positive book draws on the medical expertise of the staff at
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children; current research and the personal
stories of parents. Full of hope and supportive guidance, Your
Premature Baby takes parents from their baby's birth and into
the first five years. |
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Your Premature Baby: the Practical
and Reassuring Guide to Caring for Your Preterm Baby, Canadian Edition. Su Laurent & Maya Isaaks, $18.00 
This accessible and informative book
will guide you through what to expect in the NICU. The authors give you the
information you need to work in partnership with your medical team, enabling
you to ask the right questions and find the support you need. |
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Complete Booklist
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for Families and Professionals
Breastfeeding Challenges Made Easy for Late Preterm
Infants: the Go-To Guide for Nurses and Lactation Consultants. Sandra Cole,
$93.95
Breastfeeding the Late Preterm Infant: Improving Care and
Outcomes. Marsha Walker, $23.95
Coming Home from the NICU: a Guide for Supporting
Families in Early Infant Care and Development. Kathleen VandenBerg & Marci
Hanson, $46.50
The Early Birds: a Mother's Story of Our Times. Jenny
Minton, $17.95
Feeding and Nutrition in the Preterm Infant. Elizabeth
Jones & Caroline King, editors, $81.95
Fragile Beginnings: Discoveries and Triumphs in the
Newborn ICU. Adam Wolfberg, $19.00
Human Milk in the NICU: Policy into Practice. Lois
Arnold, $145.95
Infant Massage: a Handbook for Loving Parents. Vimala
Schneider McClure, $24.00
Intensive Parenting: Surviving the Emotional Journey
through the NICU. Deborah Davis & Mara Tesler Stein, $23.95
Juniper: the Girl Who Was Born Too Soon. Kelley and
Thomas French, $34.00
Kangaroo Babies: a Different Way of Mothering. Nathalie
Charpak, $28.95
Kangaroo Care: the Best You Can Do to Help Your Preterm
Infant. Susan Ludington-Hoe & Susan Golant, $22.00
Kangaroo Mother Care DVD, Volumes I and II. Nils Bergman,
$43.95
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The Moment You Were Born: a Story for You and Your
Premature Baby. Sandra Lane & Brenda Miles, Illustrated by Shelly
Hehenberger, $14.50
My Brother is a Preemie. Abraham Chuzzlewit & Jos. A.
Vitterito II, $22.95
My Sister is a Preemie. Abraham Chuzzlewit & Jos. A.
Vitterito II, $22.95
Noah's Garden: When Someone You Love is in the Hospital.
Mo Johnson, illustrated by Annabelle Josse, $19.00
100 Questions & Answers about Your High-Risk
Pregnancy. Elizabeth Platt, Betty Campbell, Andrea Tetreau & Michael
Pinette, $21.95
Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: the Emotional
Journey. Deborah Davis & Mara Tesler Stein, $35.95
Preemie Care: a Guide to Navigating the First Year
with Your Premature Baby. Karen Lasby & Tammy Sherrow, $28.95
Preemie: Lessons in Love, Life and Motherhood. Kasey
Mathews, $21.95
The Preemie Parents' Companion. Susan Madden, $19.50
The Preemie Primer. Jennifer Gunter, $21.00
Preemies: the Essential Guide for Parents of Premature
Babies. Dana Weschler Linden, Emma Trenti Paroli & Mia Weschler Doron,
$32.50
The Premature Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know
about Your Premature Baby from Birth to Age One. William Sears, Martha Sears,
James Sears & Robert Sears, $21.00
Understanding My Signals: Help for Parents of Premature
Infants. Brenda Hussey, $6.25
Understanding the NICU: What Parents of Preemies and
Other Hospitalized Newborns Need to Know. American Academy of Pediatrics,
$22.99
Your Premature Baby: the First Five Years. Nikki
Bradford, $19.95
Your Premature Baby: the Practical and Reassuring Guide
to Caring for Your Preterm Baby, Canadian Edition. Su Laurent & Maya
Isaaks, $18.00
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please see our booklists on Pregnancy
& Childbirth; Early Intervention; Parenting
Birth to 3; Breastfeeding; Twins and Multiples and Pregnancy and
Infant Loss.


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