For Professionals :: See What You Read: Mother and New Baby Care


Introduction
When a hospital uses this See What You Read web-enhanced parent guide in their discharge education, it sends the message that they really care about their moms and babies. Offered in English and Spanish, our comprehensive and easy to read Mother and New Baby Care book is a flexible teaching tool that covers every important topic for a family's first few weeks with a new baby. The book can be used in the hospital as a reference when you teach new parents. Once they return home, parents can visit the companion website to deepen their understanding of postpartum and infant care as they watch video clips, print informative pages, and connect to other helpful parenting and safety websites. This See What You Read interactive book offers parents everything they need for a quick and healthy postpartum recovery and essential information about basic newborn care, making it the best possible resource for both hospital teaching and at-home learning.

Our discharge video Hospital to Home, our breastfeeding video Better Breastfeeding: Your Guide to a Healthy Start and our infant care video Newborn Care are great companions to this See What You Read resource. They feature much of the information found in the Mother and New Baby Care book, and are wonderful programs to include in your closed-circuit programming to provide a uniform look and consistency to your educational tools.

Suggested Uses

  • Discharge Procedures at the Hospital
    Postpartum nurses can use this book and website to educate new parents about postpartum care and recovery.
    • Improve discharge instruction by using the book as a visual guide to cover mother care, feeding, and baby care. Refer to the helpful color photos and concise bullet-point lists, and make notes right in the book if you need to highlight care instructions.
    • Give specific directions and write down healthcare provider appointments by filling out the personalized information page in the back of the book.
    • Ask patients to fill out the Mother and Baby Care Review in the back of the guide to assess their understanding and review important health information
    • Show patients how to track their newborn's feedings and diapers with the blank feeding log page, which is also available as a PDF download on this website.
    • Print any other PDFs on this website that you want to be sure your patients have. Mother and New Baby Care PDFs cover topics such as home safety, infant CPR and choking, and baby development.
  • Patient Reference at Home
    After leaving the hospital, parents can continue to use the book and website as a reference for their long-term recovery.
    • The book will serve as reminder of what was taught at the hospital, and will answer common questions that come up about care, feeding, and warning signs. With its inviting, easy-to-navigate layout and concise information, this book is perfect for new parents who are short on sleep and time!
    • Patients with Internet access can visit this website to view more than 30 video clips on specific postpartum topics, and feel reassured as they hear from other new parents about their first weeks with a newborn.
    • Parents can print PDFs on a variety of issues that they will face in the coming weeks, and they can use the web links to connect to many other valuable parent information websites.

Video Resources
The video clips on this website are taken from programs produced by InJoy Birth & Parenting Videos, and are not for use in discharge teaching. However, you can purchase the complete video programs on DVD or VHS to play on your closed-circuit system, on-demand system, or for classroom use. Click on the video titles below for more information about each program and to preview clips on the InJoy website. Call customer service at 800-326-2082 ext. 2 for information about our free, 30-day risk free previews and to order by phone.

InJoy Birth & Parenting Videos Book Ordering Information
InJoy Birth & Parenting Videos is the publisher of the See What You Read series. Visit the Injoy website to place an online order for more books, or call 1-800-326-2082 ext. 2 to talk to a customer care representative.

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