Complimentary NICU eBook - Information & Support for NICU Parents and Their Families
"For Those Who Hold the Littlest Hands" is freely available eBook for NICU Parents from the NICU Parent Support Site. The eBook is filled with information, encouragement and resources to support NICU parents through their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit experience.
This eBook is a colorful and visually pleasing complimentary eBook has specially selected photographs and an exquisitely designed layout.
Also included are the normal, expected responses to a sudden challenge or life changing event as well as suggestions for getting through this challenging time to be available and support your newborn.
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8. Follow the instructions to access the NICU eBook from the NICU Parent Support Website.
9. Get Your Copy of the Free NICU eBook and Bonus Healing Blessings.
Please don't let the number of steps deter you; they go by pretty quickly.
If you get too frustrated, let me know by email nicuparentsupport-at-gmail.com (replace -at- with @) or http://www.nicuparentsupport.org/contact_nps.htm. I want to be sure that parents who will benefit from this resource get copies.
Different Available Versions of "For Those Who Hold the Littlest Hands"
Pick Your Version of the Free NICU eBook
The Free NICU eBook is available to download in several versions:* Full color with the cover included - 336 kb
* Full color without the cover - 320 kb
* Black & White - 302 kb
The color versions of "For Those Who Hold the Littlest Hands" eBook is a vibrant visually pleasing eBook full of specially selected photographs and an exquisitely designed layout.
However, this beautiful eBook will use up a lot of printer cartridges or color toner if you have a color printer.
If you plan on printing out the NICU eBook, you may want to select the black and white version.
Table of Contents for "For Those Who Hold the Littlest Hands"
Topics Covered in the Free NICU Parent Support eBook
- Intro & Dedication
- Being the Parent of a NICU/ICN Baby
- Common Responses - Physical
- Common Responses - Emotional & Behavioral
- Focus on the Basics
- Surviving Your NICU Experience
- Ways of Interacting with Your Newborn
- More Ways of Interacting with Your Newborn
- Different People, Different Reactions to the Same Event
- Creating a Circle of Healing
- A Healing Blessing for Your NICU Baby
- CarePages - Holding a Loved One in Your Heart, Soul and Mind
- When to Seek More Support
- A Reminder to HAVE FAITH
- Additional Useful Resources
- Our Story
- About the Author
- About the NICU Parent Support Site
- Photo Credits
- PSSST - Our Secret Message
- About the eBook - My Baby's in the NICU: Now What?
NICU Parent Support Site Series - The Initial Days and Weeks
Information, Resources & Support for NICU Parents to Manage in the NICU
- My Baby's in the NICU: Now What?
- The first lens from the NICU Parent Support Site created to provide information, support, encouragement and resources for parents and Families who suddenly find that they have a NICU Baby--a newborn hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
- How Will I Survive the NICU? Advice for NICU Parents and NICU Families
- This lens was created to help parents survive in the NICU after they have gotten past the initial shock period. The focus of this lens is on the later phases of the NICU experience--the next few weeks or months--the time when most parents find that they need and want more information to become an active participant in their baby's care.
NICU Parent Support Audio & Podcast Channel
Listen to Audio Messages of Information, Encouragement and Support
A "useful and comforting guide" and "a very powerful creation" one that should be of significant assistance to NICU families from the NICU Parent Support site.-
NICU Parent Support Audio & Podcast Channel
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The NICU Parent Support Audio & Podcast Channel is available now an audio message of support for Parents who have babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The channel has been described as a "useful and comforting guide" and "a v...
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Help to Spread the Word about the Free NICU eBook
After reading this eBook, if you have found it to be beneficial, encouraging or comforting to you during this challenging time of dealing with your NICU Journey, please take a moment to pass on the word about this complimentary eBook to others.You can share the support and spread the word several way:
- 1. Share a printed copy with someone else - another NICU parent, NICU staff member or a hospital.
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about this webpage) to someone who may benefit, so they can download a copy themselves.3. Let us know your plans for the Free NICU eBook and on the list above.
4. Post your comment or review on the "For Those Who Hold the Littlest Hands" at the bottom of this lens.
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Bonuses When You Get Our Free NICU eBook
A Special Healing Blessing for Your NICU Baby
A Special Healing Blessing - Hands A Special Healing Blessing - Lotus
You can print out and share these Special Healing Blessings, to use with our Blessings, for your own NICU baby.
Resource Provider & Member of the Everything Preemie and NICU Baby Group
Providing Free NICU eBook for Parents of NICU Babies
We are glad to be able to provide a Free NICU eBook as a resource for the Everything Preemie and NICU Baby Group.-
Everything on Preemies Headquarters
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Everything on Preemies and NICU Babies This group is for lenses on preemies, NICU babies and sick newborns. Our Lenses focus on support, products, research, resources or any related topic to help NICU families raise their preemie, NICU Baby or sick ne...
Care Pages - Create an Online Support Network for Your NICU Baby
Creating a CarePage is an easy way to generate support, provide information and keep everyone updated with a few clicks of a mouse when a baby is admitted to the NICU.-
CarePages - Connect Friends and Family During Times of Challenge
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CarePages unique service allows you to create a personal, private web page to help family and friends communicate when a loved one is facing illness whether at the beginning of life as a newborn, at the end of life, or somewhere in between. Creating...
CarePages from the NICU Parent Support Site
Keeping in Contact During Challenging Times
- NICU Parent Support Special CarePages Section
- Use our CarePages to keep your family and friends connected when your NICU baby is in the hospital by sharing information and updates on your baby.
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Free NICU eBook - One of the Best of the Best
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Giving Back to NICU Parents & NICUs With Gratitude
Why are you giving away a free ebook?
I have always believed in the importance of giving back; this is a concept that has sustained the Journey of Hearts (tm) website since its beginning in 1997 and has been a core value for the Violet Heart (tm) Collection.Giving back is a feature we bring to the NICU Parent Support, with the creating of this freely available eBook.
Giving back is a way of expressing gratitude for all that my family has been given and given back. In the case of our NICU newborn, we were given back a great deal; we were given back our daughter and the gift of her life.
I think those who endure and survive a major life challenge are forever changed by the experience. Since our NICU journey, we have the desire and feel compelled to give something back with gratitude, hence, the development of a free of charge resource to assist other NICU parents.
NICU Parent Support Site Series - The Final Days
Information, Resources & Support for the End of a Baby's Life
Yet the reality is that nearly 30,000 babies die each year...
- My NICU Baby is Dying: Now What?
- This lens is developed to support the 1,000's of NICU Parents each year who must face the difficult realization that their NICU baby will not be discharged to home because their NICU baby is dying.
- My NICU Baby has Died: Now What?
- Many parents consider the loss of a child to be the highest level of loss. The information on the site is from others who have been in similar situations have found to be helpful during their times of loss, in the hopes that it will ease your loss even slightly.
Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep - The Poem, The Song and The Book
Quotes, Poems and Readings of Comfort
The beloved sympathy poem becomes a new Book collection with quotes, poems and readings to comfort anyone coping with a challenge or grieving a loss of a loved one.-
Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep - A Poem, A Song and A Book to Comfort
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This lens is dedicated to the favorite bereavement poem, "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep" words of sympathy that have brought comfort to many since it was written. This beloved poem has also been put to music as a stirring song and most...
Beneficial Resources on Parenting and Caring for NICU Babies
Book Resources Available on Amazon for NICU Parents
Remember that purchasing NICU products recommended through this lens also benefits the March of Dimes NICU Family Support Program.
Caring for Your Premature Baby
Pediatrician and Neonatologist Alan H. Klein, M.D., uses his 25 years of experience along with co-author Jill Alison Ganon help parents who are dealing with "a different beginning" with the premature birth of their baby.
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
List Price: $16.95
Your Premature Baby and Child
Dianne I. Maroney R.N. co-wrote this books of excellent information for NICU parents written by a former NICU Nurse and NICU Parent.
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 07/25/2008)
List Price: $16.95
Newborn Intensive Care: What Every Parent Needs to Know
An excellent reference for NICU parent with a sick newborn or premature infant. It is written in language that is easy to understand by experts in the field. It is also helpful for answering many of the questions that NICU Parents have about their baby and the NICU.
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
List Price: $29.95
Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey
A very extensive book that focuses on the experiences, feelings, relationships and long-term parenting issues for parents of a premature baby. A good resource for parents who will be in the NICU for some time.
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 07/25/2008)
List Price: $29.95
Preemies: The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies
A comprehensive book for parents whose babies are born prematurely. This book combines the parents views and the physicians; the authors are two NICU mothers, Linden and Paroli, and a neonatologist Doron.
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/25/2008)
List Price: $24.95
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This book is a wonderful resource for NICU families! It's full or great information, especially on responses to stress, and ways to bond with your baby.
Posted July 04, 2007
