Publisher's Synopsis
This is unlike any other parenting book you might have read before! Its about Dads with newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)!If you would like to help your son, brother, father, friend or work colleague going through NICU right now, then this is the most important book you can ever give to support him.If you want to find out how to be the Quarterback of your current or upcoming Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) experience, then this is the most important book you will ever read.HERE'S WHY: It's just battle-tested NICU Dad tactics that are working right now.Enter The NICU has been written by past NICU Dads for current and future NICU Dads and is based on real experiences and practical solutions to negotiate the NICU environment.But first, a warning.Before we go any further, let me make one thing abundantly clear.This book isn't going to solve every problem a NICU Dad experiences or substitute working through challenges with your partner, or be a magic wand to make everything right.It's not.But what it will do is give you the insights of men who made it out the other side of NICU.Men who are Dads who have been through the NICU doors before and have worked their way through the extremes of the experience.Enter The NICU can help NICU Dads and families better understand what is ahead of them and how to negotiate it like a boss.However, I'm not suggesting that everyone who reads this book or donates will experience an improvement in their lives. I don't know how much the Dads that read it will follow the insights.It's likely that many of them will not be supported because they don't read it or follow the insights or adapt them to their own particular circumstances.Chances are we have never met and I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you this book will solve every problem for a NICU Dad.At the end of the day, only a NICU Dad can Quarterback his own experience. Not me, not a book, not a seminar, a doctor or a nurse. Not even his partner. Just him.With that said, let me jump right in and show you exactly what you are getting.Developing empathy and communication styles with your partner that are even more empathetic and understanding than you ever thought possible.This is dramatically different because its more of a "field guide" of ways a Dad can Quarterback his NICU experience than a traditional book has ever offered before.There is no fluffer or filler or "well-meaning" content written by people who haven't experienced the ups and downs of a NICU.Its just battle-tested NICU Dad tactics that are working right now.And its easy to read.The first section "How to Survive Your First 72 Hours in NICU" is around 20 pages, so Dads can read it quickly and you will immediately get everything we have been working on for the past 12 months with a very special bunch of NICU Dads who have generously donated their time and story.The rest of the book is the raw interview transcripts with the NICU Dads. You get everything - the good, the bad, the ugly!Its about more than just parenting.Its about giving NICU Dads and supporting families and friends with insights about how to: * manage their first 72 hours in NICU* support their partner through the experience* look after their mental and physical health * managing and negotiate with extended family* managing eager and well meaning friends * negotiate work requirements* support existing kids* paying billsFor example, some of the strategies in supporting a partner also extend beyond the NICU experience as well as the ways in which NICU Dads now live their lives.And developing negotiating skills in the hospital which then transfer outside the hospital to work and to life in general.This book is just battle-tested NICU Dads strategies that work. BY NOW, you will have recognised how valuable this book is for anyone connected with a NIC
