we found out today that ds needs keyhole surgery to close a duct to his heart. after panicking (quite a bit) I'm now thinking about what we should be doing to prepare ds for it. he's 17 months now, it will be in a couple of months time, will involve a 2 hour general anaesthetic and at most 1 night in hospital (hopefully none).
ds is normally quite clingy in unfamiliar places. he's too young to understand what doctors/operation/anaesthetic are. what can we do to make this as easy and un-scary as possible for him?
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how best to prepare a toddler for surgery?
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MamaChris · 01/07/2009 20:55
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