Product Description

This is a practical guide for parents with premature babies. The author seeks to demystify complex medical information and advises on everything that can be done to help. She also deals sensitively with parents' emotional problems and includes many personal testimonies and case histories. The book is supported by Tommy's Campaign, an international charity funding research into prematurity, and royalties will go to Tommy's Campaign.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #188693 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Nikki Bradford is an award-winning author and medical journalist. She was formerly health correspondent for Good Housekeeping magazine.

Sandra Lousada is most famous for her theatre and fashion photographs, especially of children.

Customer Reviews

Get the answers to all your questions!
Having a premature baby is scarey. There's so much going on, and as in our case, so little time! This book is a real help. It answers so many questions and gives you so much information. All the topics are covered in an open, frank and easy-to-understand way. Everything is in plain English as well, which helps. We can't recommend it highly enough. As far as we're concerned, it should be compulsory reading for all parents of a prem baby! By the way, our baby was born at 30 weeks, and is now doing really well, so don't worry if you're in the same situation. It'll be OK, trust me!!!

Your Premature Baby 0-5years
My daughter was born at 25weeks and I found this book to be an invaluable source of clear and useful information. It helped me understand what the doctors were telling me and enabled me to discuss with the nurses caring for my daughter issues arising from her infections and the treatment of them. The section 'How We Can Help' gave me confidence to interact with my daughter even when she was very poorly. The book is written sensitively and clearly. It is beautifully printed, has some wonderful photographs and is one of the books which our SCBU recommended to me. I would highly recommend this book to any parent or grandparent of a premature baby.

Invaluable
We were lent this book by the Special Care Baby Unit when our son was born at 27 weeks. As first time parents suffering from shock at the early arrival of our precious son, this book answered all our questions. It helped us realise that many parents go through the same agonies and worries, and go on to bring their babies home eventually-however long the wait. We brought our son home last week after he'd spent two months in hospital....