Breathe, Baby, Breathe! - Neonatal Intensive Care, Prematurity, and Complicated Pregnancies (Paperback)

Every year in the United States, 12 per cent of all births are preterm births, 5 per cent of all babies need help to breathe at birth, and 3 per cent of neonates are born with at least one severe malformation. Many of these babies are hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit. Annie Janvier and her husband, Keith Barrington, are both pediatricians who specialize in the care of these sick babies and are internationally known for their research in this area. In 2005, when their daughter Violette was born extremely prematurely, four months before her due date, they faced the situation "from the other side" as parents. Despite knowing the scientific facts, they knew nothing about the experience itself. "Knowing how a respirator works did not help me be the mother of a baby on a respirator," writes Annie. She did not know how to navigate the guilt, the uncertainty, the fears, the predictions of providers, and the responses of friends and family. In a society obsessed with goals, performance, efficiency, and high percentages, she discovered that the daily lack of control that new parents of sick babies face changes their lives. And that, for physician parents, it also changes the way they practice medicine. Most of the articles and books written about premature babies and neonatal intensive care units examine the technological and medical aspects of neonatology. Breathe, Baby, Breathe!, however, is written in the voice of a parent-doctor and tells the story of Violette and her parents, alongside the stories of other fragile babies and their families with different journeys and different outcomes. With the story of Violette at the core of the book, the interwoven stories and empirical articles provide essential insights into the medical world of premature birth. This original and clever blend of narrative and evidence provides a new, experiential view of the way forward during a parental crisis.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Annie Janvier
Translators:	Phyllis Aronoff • Howard Scott
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-2306-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Paediatric medicine > Neonatal medicine Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-4875-2306-8
Barcode:	9781487523060

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