As a parent, you can play an important role in preparing your child to stay in the hospital for an operation because you know your child better than anyone in the hospital.
Many parents are unsure of how they can best help their children.
This booklet contains some suggestions that you can use to help ease your child's worries both before and after the operation. This booklet will not prepare you for everything that will happen when your child is at the hospital for an operation. However, it will cover things that happen to most children and parents when they come to the hospital and their common reactions to them. Parents often have many feelings when they learn that their child needs an operation. Fear, worry, helplessness, even anger, are common.