Home at Last: A Parent's Guide to Your Premature Baby's First Year

Paperback edition $17.99. Digital edition $12.99 — read it tonight.

Your baby is coming home. The monitors stay behind.

For weeks you learned to read numbers on a screen. Then someone handed you a car seat and a plastic wallet of paperwork, and you drove away understanding that from now on, nobody is watching except you.

Most NICU parents do not sleep on that first night.

Home at Last is the long version of the conversation that happens at the door on discharge day — the one that is always too short, always at the wrong moment, and never covers what you actually need to know at three in the morning.

What's inside

• How to read your baby's discharge summary, line by line, in plain English
• Corrected age — the one idea that spares parents more unnecessary anguish than any other
• Safe sleep for a baby at higher risk, and why what you saw in the unit is not what you should do at home
• Feeding: breast, fortified milk and formula, starting solids, feeding aversion, and coming off the tube safely
• Development, red flags, and how to ask for an assessment rather than a reassurance
• Breathing, oxygen at home, immunisation, and surviving the first winter
• A chapter almost no book includes: what the neonatal unit did to you

Every recommendation is grounded in current evidence from the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics and Cochrane reviews, with a full reference list. 16 chapters. Written for parents with no medical background.

The medicine gets the credit. The parents do the work.
This book is for the parents.

About the Author

Dr. Ahmed Badawy is a paediatrician and neonatologist with over a decade of experience in tertiary neonatal intensive care. He holds MRCPCH (UK), certification from the European Board of Paediatrics, and the European Diploma in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care, and has published in NeoReviews, a journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.