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Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-Existing Diabetes. Cheryl Alkon, $23.95
Diabetes affects women of all life stages. If not managed properly, women with diabetes are more likely to encounter complications such as infertility and pregnancy loss, preeclampsia, birth defects, infections and other problems. Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-Existing Diabetes is a unique, patient-written guidebook that includes medical facts, first person reports, and interviews from women living with diabetes who share their pregnancy-related experiences. This practical guide for diabetic mothers-to-be will help you manage your diabetes and enjoy a healthy pregnancy and birth. |
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Diabetes Snacks, Treats and Easy Eats for Kids. Barbara Grunes, $18.50
130 recipes for the foods kids really like to eat. |
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Diabetes:
the Ultimate Teen Guide. Katherine Moran, $14.95
This practical guide for teens with diabetes talks
about issues specific to teens ages 16 to 19. It includes multiple
no-nonsense tips that demonstrate how life with diabetes can be
lived to the fullest. By identifying strategies to help manage high
and low blood glucose and giving you ideas on how to get through
the everyday drudge without giving up on your diabetes management,
author Katherine Moran provides an essential source that is filled
with informative and engaging photographs and illustrations, historical
tidbits, and an index … Filled with informative and engaging photographs
and illustrations, historical tidbits, and an index, teens learn
more about what diabetes is, what effective treatment strategies
are, how to handle negative feelings, and how to stay healthy and
maintain an active life.
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The
Everything Guide to Cooking for Children with Diabetes. Moira
McCarthy & Leslie Young, $18.99
From everyday meals to holiday treats,
learn how to prepare meals your child will love to eat. |
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The Everything®
Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile Diabetes: Reassuring Advice
for Managing Symptoms and Raising a Happy, Healthy Child.
Moira McCarthy, $17.75
The Everything® Parent’s Guide to Children with Juvenile
Diabetes helps parents deal with the challenges you and your
child face – one day at a time. |
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Gestational Diabetes. InJoy
Productions, $39.99 DVD, 22 minutes
This program teaches pregnant women who
have gestational diabetes how to keep their blood glucose in a safe and healthy
range for the remainder of their pregnancy. It explains the condition, the risk
factors and covers healthy food choices, physical activity, medications and
more. |
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I Have Diabetes Too! Molly's Story. Camille Diruan & Moshe Shifrine, $12.95
An easy-to-understand diabetes guidebook
for children and adults, from the perspective of Molly, a spot-nosed monkey
with type 1 diabetes. |
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Life Disrupted: Getting Real about Chronic Illness in Your
Twenties and Thirties. Laurie Edwards, $16.95
Life Disrupted is a personal
and unflinching guide to living well with a chronic illness: managing
your own health care without letting it take over your life, dealing
with difficult doctors and frequent hospitalizations, having a productive
and satisfying career that accommodates your health needs, and nurturing
friendships and a loving, committed relationship regardless of recurring
health problems.
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Medical
Management of Pregnancy Complicated Diabetes, 4th Edition. Edited
by Lois Jovanovič; American Diabetes Association,
$62.95
Pregnancy complicated by diabetes is a medical challenge that
can be minimized through a program of expert protocols and patient
partnerships. This newly revised edition presents a complete package
of these protocols that can help produce healthy infants in pregnancies
complicated by type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Includes:
- Pre-pregnancy counselling
- Contraception
- Psychological impact of diabetes and pregnancy
- Glycemic control
- Nutritional management
- Use of insulin
- Diagnostic testing and fetal surveillance
- Gestational diabetes
- Neonatal care
- Postpartum follow-up
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100 Questions & Answers about Your Child's Diabetes. Elizabeth Platt, Jerrold Olshan & Maryann
Waterman, $22.50
This reader-friendly guide is an
invaluable resource for learning how to manage the medical, emotional and
practical daily challenges of raising a child with Type 1 diabetes. |
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101
Tips for Raising Healthy Kids with Diabetes. Laura Hieronymus
& Patti Geil, $19.95
From toddlers to teens, 101 Tips for Raising Healthy Kids with
Diabetes offers tips and advice on medication, nutrition, psychological
considerations, special situations, and much more.
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Type 1 Teens: a Guide to Managing Your Life with Diabetes. Korey Hood, $16.50
Friends. School. Parents. Driving. Dating. Add type 1 diabetes, and your teenage life feels even more complicated. Too many competing priorities, not enough time, right? Type 1 Teens outlines straightforward strategies and tips to help you manage your diabetes before it manages you. Crack it open for simple-to-use tools and insider advice. Find practical and realistic self-help, all in this do-it-in-a-snap guide. Type 1 Teens gives you just want you need to own your diabetes, advocate for yourself, prevent diabetes burnout, and take back the control of your priorities.
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When You’re a Parent with Diabetes: a Real-Life
Guide to Staying Healthy While Raising a Family. Kathryn
Gregorio Palmer, $16.00
From the psychological to the medical to the purely
practical, When You’re a Parent with Diabetes guides parents
with diabetes through the ups and downs of staying healthy while
raising a family … When You’re a Parent with Diabetes is
full of practical ideas, suggestions, and helpful advice on living
well with diabetes while preparing for, becoming, and being a parent.
A diabetic, mother of two, and diabetes educator, Kathryn Gregorio
Palmer blends her own experience with expert advice and tips from
other parents to create a compassionate and useful handbook unlike
anything currently on the shelves. |
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Why Am I So Tired? A First Look at Childhood Diabetes.
Pat Thomas, $8.50
This reassuring little picture book will
help younger children learn what causes diabetes, what it feels
like to have it and how it can be treated. The book includes helpful
notes for adults that provide ideas for sharing the book’s information
and advice with children. |
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Complete
Booklist
Resources
for Parents & Families
(Books
for Kids * for Teens **)
Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-Existing Diabetes. Cheryl Alkon, $23.95
Clinical Management of the Child and Teenager
with Diabetes. Leslie Plotnick & Randi Henderson, $39.95
Diabetes Care for Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers:
a Reassuring Guide. Jean Betschart, $22.95
Diabetes Snacks, Treats and Easy Eats for Kids. Barbara
Grunes, $18.50
Diabetes: the Ultimate Teen Guide. Katherine
Moran, $14.95
The Doctor’s Guide to Diabetes and Your Child:
New Therapies for Type 1 and Type 2. Allan Sosin. $19.00
**Easy for You to Say. Q & A's for Teens
Living with Chronic Illness or Disability. Miriam Kaufman, $19.95
*Even Little Kids Get Diabetes. Connie White
Pirner, $9.95 (3-6)
The Everything Guide to Cooking for Children
with Diabetes. Moira McCarthy & Leslie Young, $18.99
The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children
with Juvenile Diabetes: Reassuring Advice for Managing Symptoms and Raising
a Happy, Healthy Child. Moira McCarthy, $17.75
Gestational Diabetes. InJoy
Productions, $39.99 DVD, 22 minutes
Growing Up with Diabetes: What Children Want Their Parents
to Know. Alicia Mcauliffe, $19.99
I Have Diabetes Too! Molly's Story. Camille Diruan & Moshe Shifrine, $12.95
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*I’m Tougher than Diabetes! Alden Carter, $23.95
(4-8)
**In Control: a Guide for Teens with Diabetes.
Jean Betschart & Susan Thom, $17.50
*It's Time to Learn about Diabetes: a Workbook
on Diabetes for Children. Jean Betsc1hart, $19.99 (8-12)
Life Disrupted: Getting Real about Chronic
Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties. Laurie Edwards, $16.95
Living with Juvenile Diabetes: a Practical Guide for Parents
and Caregivers. Victoria Peurrung, $21.99
Managing Preexisting Diabetes & Pregnancy: Technical
Reviews and Consensus Recommendations for Care. Kitzmiller, Jovanovic,
Brown, Coustan & Reader, editors; $100.95
Medical Management of Pregnancy Complicated
Diabetes, 4th Edition. Edited by Lois Jovanovič; American
Diabetes Association, $62.95
*My Health: Diabetes. Alvin Silverstein, et
al, $9.95 (8-13)
The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to
Childhood Diabetes. Jennie Brand-Miller, et al, $10.50
100 Questions & Answers about Your Child's Diabetes. Elizabeth Platt, Jerrold Olshan & Maryann
Waterman, $22.50
101 Tips for Raising Healthy Kids with Diabetes. Laura
Hieronymus & Patti Geil, $19.95
Raising a Child with Diabetes: a Guide for
Parents. Linda Siminerio & Jean Betschart, $21.95
Real Life Parenting of Kids with Diabetes.
Virginia Nasmyth, $26.95
*Sarah and Puffle: a Story for Children about
Diabetes. Linnea Mulder, $10.95 (4-8)
*Taking Diabetes to School. Kim Gosselin, $13.75
(5-10)
*Taming the Diabetes Dragon. Anne Dennis, $21.95
(4-8)
**Type 1 Teens: a Guide to Managing Your Life with Diabetes. Korey Hood, $16.50
**Type 2 Diabetes in Teens: Secrets for Success.
Jean Betschart-Roemer, $23.50
When a Child Has Diabetes, 3rd Edition. Denis
Daneman, Marci Frank & Kusiel Perlman/SickKids Hospital & the
Canadian Medical Assoc., $19.95
When You’re a Parent with Diabetes: a Real-Life Guide to
Staying Healthy While Raising a Family. Kathryn Gregorio Palmer, $16.00
*Why Am I So Tired? A First Look at Childhood
Diabetes. Pat Thomas, $8.50
**Young People and Chronic Illness: True Stories,
Help and Hope. Kelly Huegel, $24.95
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