Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child The Emotional Journey

There are many good books that explain your premature baby's medical or developmental conditions and treatments, and that guide you in caregiving tasks. This book is different. It focuses on your experiences, feelings, and relationships around the delivery, hospitalization, homecoming, and long-term parenting of your premature baby and child. It provides suggestions and support for coping, adjusting, and finding your way. While every family's journey is unique, you share many of the same hopes, fears, struggles, and triumphs with other parents of premature babies. It is our hope that you will find comfort, support, and strength in these pages. Book jacket.

Deborah L. Davis, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist and writer who is the author of several books that support grieving parents including Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby (Fulcrum, 1996) and Loving and Letting Go (Centering, 2002). Mara Tesler Stein, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist. She consults to health care providers and hospitals, guiding their efforts to improve the level of psychological support and care to families in Labor and Delivery and in the NICU. Both authors specialize in the emotional aspects of coping with crisis around pregnancy and parenting.