Helping Parents- Looking for a Good Book

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Specializes in NICU.

Hello All, wondering if you could help me find a good book with tips for helping families/talking to parents in the NICU, etc. I feel I am very good at talking with parents but I also feel like I could improve- maybe get a few tips. Thanks :)

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Specializes in NICU.

I stumbled across "Team Spectacular - Micro Preemie Power," by Scott Wright. It is a great webcomic (free) that you can also buy, in book form ($10). It doesn't give you any advice on how to help parents or talk with them. However, the book does give you some fantastic insight into what our NICU super-parents have to go through, which may help you talk with them.

Check it out!

His illustrations say what words cannot.

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I don't know of any books, but I can give advice to you from being a NICU parent myself. My daughter was premature *32 weeks 6 days* and the best advice I can give is to just be there for them when they need someone to talk to or need questions answered. It's the most difficult time of any parents life, and we just need to know everything is going to be okay *if it truly is* idk about all the other parents, but I wouldn't want someone telling me everything is going to be just fine, if it really isn't.

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Specializes in NICU Level III.

There is one called "Preemies" and I'm not sure of the authors but it's by two women. I think they are NNPs.

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Specializes in NICU.

I agree the book "Premies" was a good resource and had a lot of things from the doctor and nurses perspective so the parents would understand what we as medical personnel want to see happen with the babies. I think it was written for parents but i bought one as a resource for me to let parents use during their stay in the NICU.

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