Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey

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Summary: A MUST HAVE for any parent going on this journey
Review: When you enter the world of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), there are no words to describe the depth of sorrow, confusion and loneliness... until now. Mara and Debbie have written a compassionate, easy to read "road map" for parents who are beginning or who have been on the journey of prematurity. Every parent and doctor in every hospital NICU needs to have this book in their hands. Spiced with the voices of real parents, those who have "been there, done that," this book "speaks" to the heart, soul and mind of anyone who ends up taking the major detour -- bypassing the "well baby nursery" and ending up in this strange new world of the NICU. Filled with honesty, information and hope, it is an invaluable gift. I wish I would have had this six and a half years ago when my daughter spent 183 days in the NICU. Mara and Debbie find the words that so many parents lack... An empowering and compelling journal.