PREEMIE CARE

PREEMIE CARE offers a wealth of advice and action plans to inform, support, and empower parents. The ultimate goal is to ensure that the newest addition to your family will have the best possible start.

Having cared for more than two thousand premature babies and their families in the NICU and at home, leading neonatal specialists, nurses, and educators Karen Lasby and Tammy Sherrow have now created a comprehensive guide to the first year of life. Preemie Care offers a wealth of advice and action plans to inform, support, and empower parents. The ultimate goal is to ensure that the newest addition to your family will have the best possible start.

In Preemie Care, you will learn:
- How to care for yourself and your baby while in the NICU
- What to expect at the time of discharge and what you need to prepare for the journey home
- Strategies to foster health and prevent illness, including how to promote sleep, administer medications, and care for a baby on home oxygen
- Everything you need to know about feeding, including breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and pumping
- What to do about feeding challenges and tummy troubles
- The characteristics of key developmental stages and valuable strategies to support and stimulate your baby at each phase
- Tips for self-care during this challenging year
- And much, much more

Having a premature baby can feel like taking an unexpected journey on rough seas. With up-to-date and extensive information about how to look after your little one, Preemie Care will be a life preserver in tumultuous waters and will help you confidently navigate the first year of your baby's life.
A nurse for thirty-five years, KAREN LASBY leads a specialized team in post-discharge follow-up of extremely premature infants and their families. Formerly the president of the Canadian Association of Neonatal Nurses, she served on this national board for twelve years, and on the board of the Council for International Neonatal Nurses for three years.

During TAMMY SHERROW's thirty-three years as a nurse, the majority of her clinical experience has focused on the premature population. Tammy spent five years working with a specialized neonatal team following very low birth weight preemies and their families at home and knows firsthand the challenges they can face, especially during that first year. She is an associate professor at the School of Nursing and & Midwifery at Mount Royal University.