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The Premature Baby Book : Everything You Need to Know About Your Premature Baby from Birth to Age One (Sears, William, Sears Parenting Library.)

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After reading many reviews, I finally ordered 3 books about premature babies. This book was definetly the BEST. I read through it daily and it answered many questions. I especially recommend it if your baby had no problems and was only in the incubator to grow up.

This book contained the answers to questions I had while my baby was in the NICU. As a second-time parent, I was especially concerned with attachment issues with my baby that might arise from being hospitalized. This book, written by the attachment-parent gurus helped to alieviate some of my fears as well as give tips for encouraging attachment.

My beautiful first grandson was born on Thanksgiving Day 2006, 1 day prior to being in the womb for 27 weeks, he weighted 2lbs 2ounces. My daughter-in-law's water broke when she was pregnant for only 25 weeks and she had be in the hospital, laying flat on her back for 2 1/2 weeks. The doctors had us prepared for the worst, however, my grandson who is now 8 weeks old is doing great and so far no major problems. He is still in the hospital but we expect that he will be home soon. The Premature Baby Book was great, I bought a copy for my daughter-in-law at a well known bookstore, but was unable to find a copy for me so I went on line and found it at AMAZON. This book answered all of the questions that we had while traveling this journey of having a premature infant in your life from infections to how to deal with nurses you are not sure that they have your childs best interest when taking care of them along with what to expect of your baby. I highly recommend the book because it sure gave us alot of peace. Since my children were full term babies, I am learning so much and having the pleasure of seeing our precious preemie thrive outside the womb and is doing so well. We are blessed that he is in a great hospital with wonderful staff and the book serves as a great guide and is very informative. If you or anyone you know has a premature baby, by all means give them this book, you will give them a peace of mind to know that almost all of their questions are answered in this book.

This is a chapter book. Not as useful as a refenrence book but written well w/ great advise and will answer all your questions, you just have to search for the answers. Most of these preemie books provide the same info, therefore if you need to get one--I recommend, "The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies." It is easier to find things and you don't have to read the whole chapter to do so.

In all fairness, let me begin by saying this book would be helpful for people who have a premature baby who is in the hospital right NOW (and who has time to run out that first week to get a book? If you are a friend of someone who has had one ... consider purchasing as a gift - that is only way this is useful). As a person who asked the doctors/nurses questions while our son was in NICU/Level II (8wks), I purchased this book towards him comiing home with hopes it would answer questions when home "alone". Afterall, the title claims to tell you EVERYTHING you need to know through year one; this is not even close to being the truth. If all you need to know for the first year is what to expect in the hospital, that you need to look at your child's developement with their corrected age (when they were supposed to be born) and that breast is best at all cost, then I just saved you the money & S/H. They make "scientific" claims that have no backing. If they are backed by actual studies, they do not cite them, and spend quite a bit of their focus bashing other methods of rearing an infant. I consider this a decent manual for hospital - month 1.

I was admitted to the hospital and prepared for the birth of my little girl at 28 weeks, at that time I ordered quite a few books on premature babies. The baby waited another 5 and 1/2 weeks to arrive, but since the doctors kept me in the hospital on my side, I got plenty of time to read ALL of the books.
I found this book to be the most postive and reassuring. I was scared out of my mind, and many of the other books only gave worst case scenarios, whereas this book always gave the best possible outlook and postive ways to deal with things.
My baby is now 16 months old (14 months corrected age) and doing fine :-)and I am a BIG believer in Dr. Sears.

In addition to the Linden preemie book I tagged, this one is also a must have....Having a preemie, especially unexpected, is a traumatic experience. On top of all the usual postpartum issues, you are faced with daily hospital visits, and coming home to an empty nursery. The nurses are short tempered, the doctors are too busy, and none of your friends can relate. This book is an absolute godsend.

I think this book should be my helpful friend in the period for care our premature twin babygirls. Thanks for the experienced writers!

Having had my daughter 7 1/2 weeks premature I have found this a interesting read. I recommend it to any one who has just had a prem or knows they may have to deliver their baby prematurely, unfortunately for me there is almost no books available in NZ about prem babies. I was unable to get this book before we had left hospital but I know I would have found it so useful when we were in there with understanding what was going on with our baby. The chapter on breastmilk/ feeding baby was one I found very useful even 3 months down the track, and the growth charts in the back are helpful when all the ones available are based on full term babies. All the information in regards to co-sleeping is some of the most interesting I have come across, and makes me feel better about how we are raising our daughter(she sleeps at least half the night in our bed).
This book take the uncertainty out of having a premature baby and answers questions in a very easy to understand manner, the information is provided in a unbiased way.
I just wish that some of the recommended items I could get in NZ :-)

This book really helped me understanding what was happpening with my baby in NICU and how to help her.. It is a very good book that every preemie mother should have.