Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Reassuring Guide [Paperback]

Jean Betschart-Roemer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 18, 1998

The support you need to manage your little one's diabetes. With your child's diagnosis of diabetes, you may be feeling grief, sadness, or fear. Everything you need to learn to take care of your child's diabetes, in addition to normal parenting issues, can seem overwhelming. You might even worry that you may do something wrong and harm your child. This reassuring guide will help you find a balance between good diabetes management and normal life. It explains how diabetes impacts your child's growth and development, and gives you plenty of ideas for dealing with routine diabetes care. The first book of its kind, Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers provides tips on:
* Fitting diabetes demands into real-life schedules
* Making injections easier
* Preventing, detecting, and treating hypoglycemia
* Dealing with food issues
* Monitoring blood glucose
* Working with your child's day care or preschool
* Meeting the physical, mental, and emotional needs of your child
* Explaining diabetes to brothers and sisters
This unique guide also includes experiences and advice from other parents of children with diabetes and amusing Family Circus cartoons.

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From the Back Cover

The support you need to manage your little one’s diabetes. With your child’s diagnosis of diabetes, you may be feeling grief, sadness, or fear. Everything you need to learn to take care of your child’s diabetes, in addition to normal parenting issues, can seem overwhelming. You might even worry that you may do something wrong and harm your child. This reassuring guide will help you find a balance between good diabetes management and normal life. It explains how diabetes impacts your child’s growth and development, and gives you plenty of ideas for dealing with routine diabetes care. The first book of its kind, Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers provides tips on:

• Fitting diabetes demands into real-life schedules
• Making injections easier
• Preventing, detecting, and treating hypoglycemia
• Dealing with food issues
• Monitoring blood glucose
• Working with your child’s day care or preschool
• Meeting the physical, mental, and emotional needs of your child
• Explaining diabetes to brothers and sisters

This unique guide also includes experiences and advice from other parents of children with diabetes and amusing Family Circus cartoons.

About the Author

Jean Betschart, M.S.N., C.R.N.P., C.P.N.P., C.D.E., is a pediatric nurse practitioner and diabetes educator in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She has worked with children with diabetes and their families since 1980: She is also the author of It's Time to Learn About Diabetes and A Magic Ride in Foozbah-Land, and co-author of In Control: A Guide for Teens with Diabetes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 18, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471346764
• ISBN-13: 978-0471346760
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.2 x 8.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,019,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative., December 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Reassuring Guide (Paperback)

My young son was diagnosed at 15 months of age. I found this book to be a very valuable resource to me as I learned to care for him. It contains many things I needed to know that I couldn't find in other books. I highly recommend it to parents of young children with diabetes. I have turned to it again and again!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars essential for parent of young child with diabetes!, May 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Reassuring Guide (Paperback)

We got many books when our daughter, then 12 months old, was diagnosed with diabates. We found much of the information helpful, but sorely lacking when it came to the specific to the needs of such a young child. This book helps fill in the gaps. It applies the info we found elsewhere to the needs of a young child, and complements the information found in other books in an invaluable way. We'd reccomend getting other, more comprehensive books for the more general overview infomation though. (barbra davies center/"pink panther book" is a great one)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not all I had hoped for and more..., September 15, 2007

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T. Irvin "mom of diabetic" (st louis missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Reassuring Guide (Paperback)

This book is very basic, when my daughter was diagnosed at 18 months, I found I was looking for more detailed information than this book had, the pink panther book was great for clinical knowledge, but there is still no great book on the market with the day to day advise I think a parent of a toddler with diabetes needs, like which sippy cups have ounce markings on them so you can measure 4 oz juice easiest and the value and ease of weighing fruit versus measuring it in cups. These are the things parents need, this book was bland.