The Preemie Primer: A Complete Guide for Parents of Premature Babies — from Birth through the Toddler Years and Beyond
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Overview
Having a premature baby -- a baby born before the thirty-seventh week of pregnancy -- can be a crash course in both medicine and health economics, not just in parenting. Parents face complex information, difficult decisions, and overwhelming grief and worry -- with challenges that often extend well beyond those early days and weeks. As an ob/gyn, Dr. Jennifer Gunter has delivered hundreds of premature babies, but as a mother of preemie triplets, she also understands the heartbreak and challenges of prematurity. The Preemie Primer is a comprehensive resource, covering topics from delivery, hospitalization, and preemie development to parenting multiples, handling health issues, and finding special-needs programs. Compassionate, engaging, and medically grounded, The Preemie Primer is the first book on prematurity to combine the insight of a doctor with the experience of a mom.
- Title: The Preemie Primer: A Complete Guide for Parents of Premature Babies -- from Birth through the Toddler Years and Beyond
- Author: Jennifer Gunter
- Publisher: Balance
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780738214146, 9780738213934, 0738213934, 0738214140
- Resource ID: LLS:9780738214146
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T04:50:56Z
Jennifer Gunter, MD, is an internationally renowned ob/gyn and leading expert in the field of women's pain medicine. She lives in Mill Valley, California.