Raise your hand if you’ve ever stood in front of your sick child trying to figure out if her symptoms warrant a middle-of-the-night call to the pediatrician service, or if you can cuddle her back to sleep and figure it out in the morning. Is there any parent reading this without a hand in the air? And that question didn’t even factor in the whole question of an ER visit! Being a parent is never an easy job, and making informed decisions about how to best react to the many, many symptoms of sicknesses that come and go throughout the childhood years is one major challenge. Well, Dr. Lara Zibners, an emergency room pediatrician, answers our queries with If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay: How to Know if Your Child’s Injury or Illness Is Really an Emergency.
The things that kids can put in their mouths, in their ears, and up their noses, along with all the bumps, cuts, falls and other assorted childhood injuries can make a mom go crazy with worry. Dr. Zibners’ guide to assessing many of the common issues that affect children is a refreshingly calm and reassuring resource. With tongue-in-cheek humor, Dr. Zibners keeps the mood light even while she’s providing usable information in parent-friendly terms (read: non-medically trained parents!). Having been perplexed more than once in my almost 9 years of parenting, I can appreciate this book’s value, and I’m sure that I’ll have reason to pull it off the shelf again sometime in the near future!
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What an awesome book.
That looks like a great book! I would love a chance.
Love the title of this book so much!!
I would love to be entered to win please! Such wonderful info – I’m sure anyone would be glad to have such a book!
This sounds awesome! I have a friend expecting her first baby, I would love to share it with her! Thanks for the chance!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sat there with phone in hand, wondering if I should call the pediatrician! This book would be great. Thanks!
I would love to win this book! I am always freaking out about whether to take my baby to the doctor or not, especially since he always seems to get sick on the weekends which would mean an ER visit.
I’m so excited to see something like this & will have to check it out. As a mom with my first child – now 17 months old – I’ve already found numerous times when I wasn’t sure what to do. To have some of the basic answers right at my fingertips will be great!
This book looks so good. My daughter is forever getting into something she shouldn’t so this book would probably be good for me.
This books sounds fantastic. I tend to Google and scare myself.
looks like a very informative book, way cool!
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The title is too cute!
Any book that doesn’t take itself too seriously is my kind of book.
I need this book. I am a first time mommy and a very nervous one!
I need this book too! Just adopted a two year old! Thanks.
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I would love to win this for my daughter
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This book looks great!
Thanks!
This would be a wonderful gift for my daughter who just had a baby.
My daughter could use this for her 16 month old.
This is totally up my alley!
My pediatrician would want me to have this book so I can stop having her paged for every little thing. LOL
I would love this! I called my pediatrician in a frenzy because I thought my son had swallowed the tip of a door stopper.
If grandmas of little ones are eligible, please enter me in the drawing.
Thank you!
Thank goodness for this book. As a first time parent to twins, I am paranoid about everything. This would help me relax about raising them.
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Sounds like a great book!
Sounds like a great book!
Sounds delicious ~ please enter me.
is this contest still open? If so, add me to the list!
This sounds like a great book-definitely very handy for any parent!
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What a wonderful book for any parent! I’ve been so fortunate that my children don’t get ill often but when they do I’ve always asked these same types of questions about how to handle it and how serious it is!