Jennifer BracciWaiting For Baby: A Sibling Visits the Nicu

This book helped facilitate really helpful conversations with our almost 4-year old son about his baby brother in the NICU. I appreciated how the book takes you across three phases of events / corresponding emotions for the sibling and parents: before baby's arrival with all of the excitement and anticipation, to baby going to the NICU, to bringing the baby home. The illustrations were great and our toddler LOVED this book, asking us to read it to him at least twice a day during baby's NICU stay and even well after baby came home. The only things I disliked were that there were lines in there that did not correspond to the NICU rules at our hospital (e.g. older siblings could not touch the NICU baby sibling at all at our hospital) and some lines in the book advocated the older sibling touching the preemie baby's head (I wouldn't advocate any toddler touching a newborn's head, let alone a preemie baby's head--rather, baby's feet instead). It would be great if Amazon could add this to prime to get it shipped out faster--time is of the essence when you have a baby in the NICU and you are trying to find ways to help an older sibling cope with this specific situation as quickly as possible.

This book is absolutely perfect! I bought it for my four year old while we wait for her baby sister to come home. It has just the right level of honest and accurate information (and illustrations) without being over her head or scary. She loves to point out all the things the baby in the book has, just like her sister (breathing tube, feeding tube, etc). She hasn't stopped requesting it be read since it arrived, I feel like it is really helping her articulate the questions that have been in her head since her sister was born. I cannot say enough good things about this book. Although it was written by a nicu nurse- so of course it's perfect- they are an amazing group of people!

Great gift for a sibling in the Nicu. Perfect gift for my friend who has a baby in the Nicu and a 5 year old son. Really like that it gives advice on how a sibling can help. Excellent idea!

My daughter LOVED this book! It really helped us prepare her for her first visit to the NICU to see her little brother. She is usually startled by alarms, hates washing hands and having her temp taken, but after reading the book a few times (and asking for it at bed time), she was cooperative at NICU. She recited lines from the book during her visit. It also helped her understand her brother's situation better. I highly recommend this book for NICU siblings!!

I bought this book for my 4 year old when his brother was born and in the NICU. It's perfect at explaining how a young sibling will feel and talking about what's going on with the new baby in a general, age appropriate way.

The recipient loved this book and said it helped her toddler adjust during a unexpectedly long NICU stay for baby.

Great book to explain why the baby is still in the hospital before coming home.

This was a perfect gift for a toddler son of a friend of mine, who's baby brother has had an extended NICU stay. This was a wonderful tool for his parents to be able to explain such a big situation to a little mind. The little boy and baby in the book look exactly like my friend's children, so that was a plus! Very relatable!

We wanted to find a way to help explain to our 3 year old where his baby brother was. Given how into stories he is at the moment we gave this ago and I'm so glad we did!The words and pictures are so carefully chosen and help paint a great picture for the sidings to make the first few visits to ICU much less daunting. Highly recommended if you're in a similar situation

Good images and description of machines and what might happen when baby in nicu but I did find this book was not generic enough. It talks about baby being a boy, mommy and daddy and heaven. I had to change the story to suit

Love this book. Really helped to prepare our little boy for his baby brother coming early 💙