The NICU Rollercoaster

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Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation Written By: Nicole E. Zimmerman & Edward J. Sprague	Click on the Buy From Amazon.com link to know Amazon.com's best price & availability.
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 649 EAN: 9781436326544 ISBN: 1436326540 Label: Xlibris Corporation Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 179 Publication Date: 2008-07-26 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Studio: Xlibris Corporation
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Consumer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: An asset to any NICU family library! Comment: This book has been very helpful as part of the family library in our NICU. It tells the heart-felt story of NICU parents and their premature twins as they go through their NICU experience. It is an easy read as we share in their day-to-day experiences with having twins early and with the medical problems they continue to face. It is written in terms that any new parent could understand as they travel along the road of "NICU lingo" during their hospitalization. I would recommend this book not only to current NICU families, but to staff and former NICU parents as well. Customer Rating: Summary: For those needing outside guidance Comment: This is a great book for anyone who is in contact with premature babies or their parents/caretakers. It not only highlights the various problems encountered with micro-preemies, it also provides a method by which the caretakers can survive the impending dramas to come. After all, the preemies are generally cared for by hospital staff, but the parents are left hanging and the term "rollercoaster" is definitely appropriate. This book shares the stories of two preemies and the parent's survival of this rough period and can give anyone that wants to help a sense of what they are going through. I highly recommend this book as required reading for parents/grandparents/friends of preemies and also for medical staff and professionals that often deal with this type of medical situation. Customer Rating: Summary: Down to earth help Comment: When you are in the midst of life in a NICU, you take for granted that you'll have the support of family and friends. What you forget is that their lives continue elsewhere and yours continues in the NICU. Keeping them up to date on the goings on, the events and the reality keeps them involved and in turn gives YOU the support you need. This book is written by exactly the right people, those that lived the life of months in a NICU -- and have the blog entries to prove it. They teach you, through their own experience, just how to keep that connection going with the outside support system -- friends and family and how to personally benefit from that. If you've never blogged before, this is the book for you. If you've blogged all your life, this will reinforce your efforts and encourage you. It will show you how helpful it can be and how to use it to your advantage during your stay. The best part is that its real ... real life ... real success. Customer Rating: Summary: Great book for parents and professionals Comment: This book is written by the parents of twins born at 25 weeks. It is a compilation of their blog on CarePages and useful information on what the babies and parents can expect to encounter during their NICU stay. Nicole and Ed were surprised when their generally healthy pregnancy turned into an emergency situation at 25 weeks gestation. They were not prepared for what was to follow - having 25 week twins in the NICU - one for 104 days and the other for 160 days. Their book is their story, but it is also a guide for other parents on what to expect - from apnea and bradycardia, to NEC and jaundice, and to the emotional ups and downs of having discharge dates set and then quickly taken away. Nicole and Ed write openly and frankly about the emotional and physical tolls of caring for babies born so prematurely. This book is written in simple everyday terms to help parents learn the NICU "lingo". I have worked with former preemies and worked in the NICU setting so I have a fair bit of knowledge about what happens there. This book not only explained common preemie issues in a coherent and competent manner, it also gave a parents perspective and helped me to understand the NICU environment more fully. In my opinion, this is a book that would not only benefit the family members of children currently in the NICU, but also parents of former preemies to know that there are others going through the same thing, as well as health care providers and community members who care for preemies throughout their childhood.

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