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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 explains how diabetes impacts your child’s growth and development, and gives you plenty of ideas for dealing with routine diabetes care. The first book of its kind, Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers provides tips on:Fitting diabetes demands into real-life schedules Making injections easier Preventing, detecting, and treating hypoglycemia Dealing with food issues Monitoring blood glucose Working with your child’s day care or preschool Meeting the physical, mental, and emotional needs of your child Explaining diabetes to brothers and sistersThis unique guide also includes experiences and advice from other parents of children with diabetes and amusing Family Circus cartoons.

How to Make the Best Choices About Your Health Finally, a bookabout diabetes that you'll actually want to read! This helpful andhighly readable guide explains everything you need to know to getyou through the teen years. Straightforward and current, thisone-of-a-kind book tackles the issues and answers the questions youmay face, including:* Is it time for me to handle more of my diabetes care?* What can I do about mood changes?* What about junk food or fast food?* When should I tell my boyfriend or girlfriend about mydiabetes?* Does diabetes affect my sexuality?* How do I choose, talk to, and negotiate with my medicalteam?"Practical, meaningful, and highly enjoyable. There are not manybooks out there for teenagers with diabetes. In Control fills a gapand really meets that need." --JoAnn Ahern, RN, MSN, CDE PediatricDiabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist, Yale University * Books to Funda Cure * A portion of this book's proceeds will go to the JuvenileDiabetes Foundation International, a not-for-profit voluntaryhealth agency, whose primary objective is to support and fundresearch to find the cause, cure, treatment, and prevention ofdiabetes and its complications. Juvenile Diabetes FoundationLibrary Illustrator P.S. Mueller's cartoons appear in more than 30major city weekly newspapers throughout the country and in suchmagazines as Harper's, Health, The Esquire Gentleman, Hippocrates,and The Utne Reader.

The third edition of American Diabetes Association Guide to Raising a Child with Diabetes features the latest advances in diabetes care and parenting advice from the diabetes experts. Full of problem-solving examples and easy-to-use tables, the book shows parents how to adjust insulin to allow for the foods children like to eat, care for a child with type 2 diabetes, handle sick days, and plan meals that are nutritious and balanced. The book also addresses how to play sports and games safely, help children maintain a busy schedule and still feel healthy and strong, negotiate the twists and turns of being "different," and accept the physical and emotional challenges that life has to offer.

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 explains how diabetes impacts your child''s growth and development, and gives you plenty of ideas for dealing with routine diabetes care. The first book of its kind, Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers provides tips on:

* Fitting diabetes demands into real-life schedules* Making injections easier* Preventing, detecting, and treating hypoglycemia* Dealing with food issues* Monitoring blood glucose* Working with your child''s day care or preschool* Meeting the physical, mental, and emotional needs of your child* Explaining diabetes to brothers and sisters

This unique guide also includes experiences and advice from other parents of children with diabetes and amusing Family Circus cartoons.