Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: A Reassuring Guide

by Jean Betschart Roemer, Betschart, Jean Betschart-Roemer

The support you need to manage your little one's diabetes. With your child's diagnosis of diabetes, you may be feeling grief, sadness, or fear. Everything you need to learn to take care of your child's diabetes, in addition to normal parenting issues, can seem overwhelming. You might even worry that you may do something wrong and harm your child. This reassuring guide will help you find a balance between good diabetes management and normal life. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471346764
• ISBN13: 9780471346760
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Diabetes Care for Babies,Toddlers, and Preschoolers

This is a very nice book to learn, understand and start to accept what is expected for your child to live with diabetes. It covers everything from dealing with the diagnosis to a snack chart with serving size and carbs all of which has been helpful.

A very good start for reading about type -1 diabetes

This is a very reassuring book. I recommend it as a starting point for parents who have been through hard times in the hospital, when they had their child diagnosed with diabetes. We have been through this experience when our 2-years old child was diagnosed with diabetes, we were struggling, not believing, looking for advice everywhere. This book helped us put ourselves together, and start dealing with it in a mature way. It first teachs you how to deal with diabetes emotionally which is the most important step in the treatment, how to explain it to your diabetic kid, his brothers/sisters, how to make injections easier for you and your kid, and many other useful advices. It is written from the nursing point of view, so you must have another comprehensive home reference.

Very informative.

My young son was diagnosed at 15 months of age. I found this book to be a very valuable resource to me as I learned to care for him. It contains many things I needed to know that I couldn't find in other books. I highly recommend it to parents of young children with diabetes. I have turned to it again and again!

A must for young families

Clear, concise and most important understandable. One of the few books dealing with this age group Betschart created an excellent resource for young families. I used this when researching my own book and highly recommend it.

essential for parent of young child with diabetes!

We got many books when our daughter, then 12 months old, was diagnosed with diabates. We found much of the information helpful, but sorely lacking when it came to the specific to the needs of such a young child. This book helps fill in the gaps. It applies the info we found elsewhere to the needs of a young child, and complements the information found in other books in an invaluable way. We'd reccomend getting other, more comprehensive books for the more general overview infomation though. (barbra davies center/"pink panther book" is a great one)