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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!
Great news– Leave a comment here and one of five copies of If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay can be yours! (US and Canadian residents only.)
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At this very moment, it’s highly likely that Dawn is either reading a book or bandaging up a scraped knee. Details can always be found on her blog, my thoughts exactly.
Annmarie says
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!
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Thank you for the AWESOME GIVEAWAY.. Please count me in 🙂
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Staci A says
This sounds like a great book-definitely very handy for any parent!
Myrtle says
is this contest still open? If so, add me to the list!
Christy H. says
Sounds delicious ~ please enter me.
Deedee says
Sounds like a great book!
Transparent Mama says
Sounds like a great book!
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Thao says
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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Rita says
If grandmas of little ones are eligible, please enter me in the drawing.
Thank you!
Michelle says
I would love this! I called my pediatrician in a frenzy because I thought my son had swallowed the tip of a door stopper.
Melissa O. says
My pediatrician would want me to have this book so I can stop having her paged for every little thing. LOL
Jessica T says
This is totally up my alley!
Adele says
My daughter could use this for her 16 month old.
Pat says
This would be a wonderful gift for my daughter who just had a baby.
Jen Nutzhorn says
This book looks great!
Thanks!
angie says
I would love to win this for my daughter
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angie says
I would love to win this for my daughter
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Alyson says
I need this book too! Just adopted a two year old! Thanks.
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Jinii says
I need this book. I am a first time mommy and a very nervous one!
NTE says
Any book that doesn’t take itself too seriously is my kind of book.
Erin says
The title is too cute!
Sarah says
I could definitely use this book. Please enter me!
Rachel says
I’m really going to need this book!!!
Daniel M says
looks like a very informative book, way cool!
Magi says
This books sounds fantastic. I tend to Google and scare myself.
Holly says
This book looks so good. My daughter is forever getting into something she shouldn’t so this book would probably be good for me.
Kim says
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!
Cassie says
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.
Kris says
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!
LT says
This sounds awesome! I have a friend expecting her first baby, I would love to share it with her! Thanks for the chance!
Jessica H. says
I would love to be entered to win please! Such wonderful info – I’m sure anyone would be glad to have such a book!
The Diaper Diaries says
Love the title of this book so much!!
Stefany says
That looks like a great book! I would love a chance.
Cecilia says
What an awesome book.