Preemies: The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies is an engaging and fact-filled reference that guides new parents through the many questions and uncertainties of anticipating and caring for a premature baby.

Dana Wechsler Linden and Emma Trenti Paroli are both journalists who gave birth to premature babies. Mia Wechsler Doron, who is Dana's sister, is a neonatologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. The book is published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

The March of Dimes is pleased to provide an excerpt from this publication, and we remind you that the material is for information purposes and does not constitute medical advice. The opinions expressed in Preemies: The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the March of Dimes.

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