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100 _aDiGregorio, Sarah,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aEarly :
_ban intimate history of premature birth and what it teaches us about being human /
_cSarah DiGregorio.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarperCollinsPublishers,
_c[2020]
300 _ax, 347 pages ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: one birth -- The unexpected: millions of births. What happened? ; Treatments and outcomes ; Viability and the zone of parental discretion -- The body: incubation. The history of incubation: Coney Island, chicken eggs, and changelings ; The modern incubator, or how to build a giraffe ; The incubators of the future: babies in bags -- The breath: treating repiratory distress. Dr. Mildred Stahlman and the miniature iron lung ; Dr. Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos and the rugged machine ; JFK's lost baby and the advent of surfactant -- The Self: protecting the premature brain. The revolutionary practice of listening to preemies ; Follow-up care: preemie development beyond the NICU -- The threshold: end-of-life issues at birth. What should we do for 22-week babies? ; Knowing when to stop ; Choice, decisions, and the messiness of real life -- The crisis: the body under stress. Racism causes preterm birth ; What prematurity means in Mississippi ; Group prenatal care and the power of community -- The invisibles: breaking the silence. The hidden trauma of prematurity ; Grown preemies speak for themselves -- Epilogue.
520 _aInspired by the author's harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, a compelling and empathetic work that combines memoir with rigorous reporting to tell the story of neonatology-and to meditate on the questions raised by premature birth.
600 0 _aDiGregorio, Sarah.
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650 0 _aNeonatology.
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650 0 _aPremature infants
_xHospital care.
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