What happens when your baby arrives very early or very small? A guide to what to expect in hospital and how to prevent a second small baby. In this easy to read and matter of fact guide to looking after yourself and your baby after a premature birth or 'small for dates'baby, there is a wealth of no nonsense information on what to expect and how to cope. From feeding your baby to potential development risks there are resources to access further information and a basic precis of the problems you a...
Neonatology Questions and Controversies: Renal, Fluid & Electrolyte Disorders - E-Book (Neonatology: Questions & Controversies)
Acute Respiratory Care of the Neonate
Advances in Neuroimaging of the Fetus and Newborn, an Issue of Clinics in Perinatology (Clinics: Internal Medicine, #49)
Exposition Aux Psychotropes Et a D'autres Substances Pendant La Grossesse Et L'allaitement
by Camh and Motherrisk
GIVE YOUR PRETERM BABY THE BEST POSSIBLE START IN LIFE If you have just given birth to a preterm infant, you and your baby both face special challenges. Parents long to help their baby but often feel isolated and frightened by hospital procedures. Now there is wonderful news for both babies and parents. Kangaroo Care, a technique pioneered in leading neonatal centers worldwide, gives you a unique role: a special way of holding your infant that provides crucial health benefits—including s...
Everything you need to know as your premature baby grows. All new babies need love and attention. Premature babies, the tiniest and most fragile of infants, need extra care. The Preemie Parents' Companion is a comprehensive guide for parents along every step of what is sure to be a journey full of challenges and rewards. Completely up-to-date and immensely reassuring, it covers: How to he informed partners with the healthcare team in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU); Coping with possible m...
This was Alliette's simple but profound plea as she drove herself to the hospital. She had been standing in her kitchen doing dishes. . . . Her husband and older daughters were not at home. Suddenly she felt something like water running down her leg.Alliette knew what it meant, but she couldn't believe it. She was only twenty-two weeks along. . . . She decided to drive herself to the hospital. She soon regretted it.In these pages you will find five stories of babies born before their time, three...
Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, 7th Edition
by AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
Now in its seventh edition! From the American Academy of Pediatrics, the most up-to-date, expert advice for mothers, fathers, and care providers—all in one guide. All parents want to provide the very best care for their children. This essential resource from the most respected organization in child health is the one guide pediatricians routinely recommend. Parents can safely trust the guidance, which covers everything from preparing for childbirth to toilet training and from breastfeeding to n...
Quality Improvement, an Issue of Clinics in Perinatology, E-Book (Clinics: Orthopedics, #50)
Neonatology Questions and Controversies: Hematology and Transfusion Medicine - E-Book (Neonatology: Questions & Controversies)
Invaluable expert information and support for any parent whose infant is admitted to the NICU. When a newborn is admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), it can be frightening and overwhelming. Edited by two top NICU doctors and a veteran NICU nurse, this guide will support parents through their baby’s time in the NICU, helping them communicate with members of the NICU team, ask the right questions, and participate as valuable partners in their baby’s care. Understanding the NICU add...
What makes us the way we are? Some say it's the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it's the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics--our health, our intelligence, our temperaments--are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth? That's the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal origins. Over the past twenty years, scientists have been developing a radically new understanding of our very earl...
Drugs in Pregnancy, an Issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, E-Book (Clinics: Internal Medicine, #50)
Featuring 70 powerful, real-world narratives, NICU Nursing Stories: A Day in the Life of a NICU Nurse provides readers with a deeply personal yet highly practical window into the realities of neonatal intensive care nursing. Utilizing a storytelling framework, readers engage with experiences written by skilled and practiced NICU nurses. The stories highlight the intense day-to-day struggles, miracles, ethical dilemmas, stresses, and heartache NICU nurses experience throughout their careers. Read...
Report of Infant Mortality Study in San Diego County
by Helen M. Wallace, Ronald Coen, and Paul Wise
Only One Chance (ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND SCIENCE POLICY)
by Philippe Grandjean
Today, one out of every six children suffers from some form of neurodevelopmental abnormality. The causes are mostly unknown. Some environmental chemicals are known to cause brain damage and many more are suspected of it, but few have been tested for such effects. Philippe Grandjean provides an authoritative and engaging analysis of how environmental hazards can damage brain development and what we can do about it. The brain's development is uniquely sensitive to toxic chemicals, and even sma...
The Immunology of the Fetus (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1989, this book provides information on the diagnosis and treatment of neonatal immunodeficiencies. It includes a survey on the "riddle of the fetal allograft". Also discussed in the text are Ontogeny, immunological aspects of differentiation, and treatment of spontaneous abortion. This book is useful to predoctoral students, researchers in obstetrics, animal husbandry, and reproductive immunology.
Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Measurements (International Congress S., v. 967)