The author's exciting eventful experience with the birth of her grandchild has been put to story. She vividly recalls a real dream she had following the night after her granddaughter's birth, who was a high risk baby needing help for survival from the expert staff at a Medical Center many miles away from her local community hospital. Told through Baby Ella's words, the story unfolds at her start of life as she is greeted by Magi-cal Elephant Doctors. This is followed with a rollicking ambulance ride over the mountains, and then continues in a dreamy fantasy of fun and frolic, all the while Ella is treated at the Special Care Nursery. Ella awakens from her dreamy sleep after playing with special friends. She is embraced by her mother for the first time and feels the power of love, family, friendship, and healing. This is a wonderful book to share with parents or siblings of a high risk baby, or to teach children and adults about using dreams and imagery, especially during stressful times. The power of love and hope in healing is beautifully illustrated with a heartwarming ending. This book is delightful for all ages.

Author Biography

Nancy Snow LPN has been devoted to the care of families from birth throughout their lifetime for more than 40 years at Vermont's Rutland Regional Medical Center. She was instrumental in starting community-wide Childbirth and Breastfeeding classes, and Stop Smoking Cessation programs. Along with Nurse Colleagues, she founded Vermont's premier Stress Reduction, Holistic Store and Educational Center bringing nationally renowned holistic health authors and teachers to the area. She has been a REIKI Practitioner since 1997 having studied Traditional REIKI with Joyce Morris, founder of the REIKI Center of Los Angeles. Her love of Reiki is shared with people of all ages including newborns. This is Nancy's first book. Norma Montaigne is a Vermont artist and commercial graphics designer. Her art work has covered everything from billboards to car wraps, cookie cutters to professional journal covers. Originally from Avon, Connecticut, she studied at the University of Hartford Art School, and the Paier College of Art in New Haven. Her love of nature began while spending summers on Lake Champlain with her grandparents. She later settled with her husband in Vermont, and taught commercial art at Green Mountain College. Her business, Anything Graphic, has allowed her to express her love of art in all mediums, and for clients throughout the world for the past forty years."I love making people see just everything you look at in a little different way." Montaigne desires to seize every moment and create beauty in the mundane. Julie White RN is a Nurse Entrepreneur who created Vermont's Premier Stress Reduction Center, Peace of Mind Emporium, in Rutland, Vermont in 1994. It was nurse owned and staffed. The retail/holistic health, spiritual and educational center welcomed people from all over the world for almost twenty years. World-renowned authors and teachers, holistic health educators, and accomplished practitioners shared their gifts with thousands of customers and clients. It was recognized with several national awards by Hay House Publishing. She was also a former Nurse Manager at Rutland Regional Medical Center, assisting in the creation of the Birthing Center and Mother-Baby Units, community parenting & childbirth classes, and staff education. Prior to moving to Vermont, she lived in Cooperstown, NY where she taught nursing at various colleges, and was a staff nurse at Bassett Hospital. Originally from Rome, NY, she received her BSN degree at Keuka College and MSN at Russell Sage College. She has been devoted to the care of families from birth through death. Daily doses of music, nature, quilting, gardening, art, and laughter are her vitamins for health.