Greetings, readers! Now that Amazon has disabled its popular ebook lending feature, we're more committed than ever to helping you find the best ways to borrow FREE or save big on the Kindle books that you want to read. Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime Reading offer members free reading access to over 1 million titles, including Kindle books, magazines, and audiobooks. Beginning soon, each day in this space we will feature "Today's FREEbies and Top Deals for Our Favorite Readers" to share top 5-star titles that are available for KU and Prime members to read FREE, plus a link to a 30-day FREE trial for Kindle Unlimited!

Lendle

Lendle is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associates participant, we earn small amounts from qualifying purchases on the Amazon sites.

Born at 26 1/2 weeks and weighing only 2 LBS, This is the five month journal of Isla’s stay at the NeoNatal Intensive Care Unit of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada

Isla’s Story is the daily log of what happened to Isla while she lay in the hospital initially fighting for her life and later becoming a mostly normal baby. The initial idea was to keep a log so family could keep up with what was happening and not spend a lot of time regurgitating daily events. It turned into a very detailed (including details about conditions and treatments) account of what a baby who is born at 26 weeks goes through to hold onto life.

Susan and Jacques live in Mississauga Canada with their daughter Isla Marie, who can now almost count to thirty-three! (ok, maybe not but she is a big fan of Dr. Seuss.)
They volunteer at Mount Sinai Hospital’s NICU and are members of the Parent Advisory Association, whose mandate is to advocate for the parents of premature babies.
As parent buddies (parents who are trained to counsel other parents who are going through similar circumstances with their own prematurely born child) they both realized that new parents had the same ups and downs, fears and concerns that they did when Isla was born and wanted to assist in any way they could to help those parents.

We hope you find this useful in understanding what we went through either because you are in the same place we were in or because you know someone in that circumstance and you want a better understanding of what they are going through. Either way, your purchase of this book will help both Isla and other parents because a portion of the sale price of this book is going to help other parents and premature babies.

As parents, we would like to thank all the support staff, nurses, doctors and premature babies and their parents who were a part of Isla’s first 5 months of life at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada.

We’d especially like to thank Janet and Sue, Isla’s primary nurses, who made sure Isla was given extra special care and love.

If you are parents of a premature baby or future parent of a premature baby, we hope Isla’s story gives you hope in your unique situation.

Genres for this book