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Language
English
Description
Inspired by the author's harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, this book combines memoir with rigorous reporting to tell the story of neonatology. This is a field in which humanity, ethics, and science collide in dramatic and deeply personal ways as parents, doctors, and nurses grapple with sometimes unanswerable questions: When does life begin? When and how should life end? And what does it mean to be human?
Publisher
American Academy Of Pediatrics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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 addresses such topics as common NICU equipment and...
Publisher
Ned Ediciones
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
El nacimiento de un bebé prematuro es un momento de felicidad y también de preocupación para los padres. Este libro está desarrollado por médicos neonatólogos y está orientado principalmente a los padres y madres de los prematuros muy pequeños. Intenta ser una herramienta para ayudarlos a transitar esta etapa y explica aquellos aspectos que más preocupan en ese momento a modo de guía. "Los bebés prematuros nos han enseñado a percibir sus...
Author
Series
Juana and Lucas volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Juana's life in Bogot̀, Colombia, is just about perfect. Every now and then a big problema comes along--like having to learn English or Juana's mami getting remarried--but things eventually settle down, and life goes back to feeling pretty perfect again. But then Mami springs two new sorpresas on Juana. One: Juana will be spending her school break going to skating camp instead of relaxing (even though she doesn't know how to skate!). Two: Mami is...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney Island and America's first incubators"--
8) The strange case of Dr. Couney: how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary tale of how a mysterious immigrant "doctor" became the revolutionary innovator of saving premature babies-by placing them in incubators in World's Fair side shows and on Coney Island and Atlantic City. What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? As Dawn Raffel artfully recounts, Dr. Couney figured out he could use incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants alive, and at the same time make good money displaying...
Author
Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the late 19th century, there wasn't much hope for premature babies-- until Dr. Couney developed the incubator. The device was so new and strange, hospitals rejected it. So Dr. Couney set up a sideshow at Coney Island, taking care of the tiniest newborns as part of a display to convince the public that incubators worked. Thousands of babies grew into healthy children as Boardwalk Babies, including Dr. Couney's own premature daughter. Many of those...
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