Woodslane | Book - 9781780666655

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Google Preview: Childhood illness affects thousands of families every year and can have a profound impact on everyone connected with a child, including their parents, siblings, extended family and community. In Why Childhood Illness Matters paediatric nurse and researcher Lyndsey Hookway explores the experience of having a sick child, explaining the effects on families and how they can best be supported by those around them. She examines how illness affects both a child and their family's quality of life, psychological wellbeing, and relationships, as well as a child's education, opportunities, sleep and play. She also explores how the effects of acute, chronic and palliative illness can be understood and managed to improve outcomes for children and their families.; Dr Lyndsey Hookway is a paediatric nurse, health visitor, IBCLC, responsive sleep influencer, and researcher. The mother of a childhood sepsis and cancer survivor, she often talks about the impact of chronic childhood illness on families, and seeks to support other families living through serious illness. Her research focuses on the needs and challenges of medically complex breastfed infants and children, as well as their families, and the health professionals caring for them. She is the author of Holistic Sleep Coaching (2018), Let's talk about... your new family's sleep (2020), Still Awake (2021) and Breastfeeding the Brave (2022).; Google Preview content