title: Your Premature Baby: The Complete Guide to Premie Care During That Crucial First Year
author:  Robin Marantz Henig 
description: <b>Robin Marantz Henig </b>is a medical journalist whose work appears in many national magazines, including <i>The New York Times Magazine, Womans Day, Redbook, </i>and <i>Mademoiselle</i>. Her first book, <i>The Myth of Senility: Misconceptions About the Brain and Aging, </i>won the 1982 Media Award of the American Psychological Association. Ms. Henig lives outside Washington, D.C., with her husband and family.<br /> <br /> <b>Anne B. Fletcher, M.D., </b>is a neonatology specialist and chief of the Neonatology Unit at Childrens National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
zlib_text: Table of Contents
   
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Foreword
  Prologue:
   
  PART ONE - The Beginning
  Chapter 1 - Prematurity 101
  Can I Really Learn This?
  Getting Started
  What Does Prematurity Mean?
  Understanding Disability
  When a Baby Is Just Too Premature
  Chapter 2 - Causes of Prematurity and Interventions
  Preterm Labor
  Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes
  Infection
  Cervical Insufficiency
  Intrauterine Growth Restriction
  Pre-eclampsia
  High Blood Pressure
  Abruption
  Placenta Previa
  Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
  Chapter 3 - Multiple Pregnancy
  Nutrition
  Causes of Prematurity Specific to Multiples
  Discordant Growth
  Reduction
  
  The Delivery
  Interval Delivery
  Chapter 4 - Your Delivery
  Anesthesia
  Your Delivery
   
  PART TWO - Your Premature Baby and the Hospital
  Chapter 5 - The First Few Days
  Resuscitation
  Transfer
  Where Is My Baby Going?
  Who Is Caring for My Baby?
  Seeing Your Baby for the First Time
  Assimilating to Life in the Intensive Care Nursery
  When Can I Hold My Baby?
  Chapter 6 - Prematurity and 