What to Expect Photo Books and Videos

Created by child life specialists, these colorful photo stories and videos help children prepare for their time at Seattle Children’s. Use these resources to lessen your child’s worry and spark conversation. Some are also available in Spanish.

Your COVID-19 Nasal Swab

What a child can expect when they get a COVID-19 nasal swab.

• What to Expect During Your COVID-19 Nasal Swab at Seattle Children's Lab (PDF) (Spanish)

Your Blood Draw

Shows a common patient experience at Seattle Children’s hospital campus and Bellevue labs.

• What to Expect During Your Blood Draw at Seattle Children's Lab (PDF) (Spanish)
• What to Expect During Your Blood Draw at Seattle Children's Bellevue Lab (PDF) (Spanish)
• What to Expect During Your Blood Draw at Seattle Children's North Clinic Lab (PDF)
• Numbing Cream to Prevent and Reduce the Pain of Needles (PDF) (Spanish)

Your Bone Marrow Donation

What a child can expect when they donate their bone marrow.

• What to Expect When You Donate Your Bone Marrow at Seattle Children's (PDF) (Spanish)

Getting an IV

What a child can expect when they get an IV.

• What to Expect When You Get an IV at Seattle Children's Hospital (PDF) (Spanish)
• Numbing Cream for Painful Procedures (PDF) (Spanish)

Getting a Cast

• What to Expect When You Get a Cast at Seattle Children’s (PDF)
• Hear the sound of a cast remover:

Your Surgery Day

What to expect when you have surgery at Seattle Children’s hospital campus or Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center.

• What to Expect on Your Surgery Day at Seattle Children's Surgery Center (PDF) (Spanish)
• What to Expect on Your Surgery Day at Seattle Children's Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center (PDF) (Spanish)
• Coloring book for preschoolers: Surgery Day for Me (PDF)

Your Hospital Stay

What to expect when you come to Seattle Children’s for a hospital stay.

• What to Expect During Your Hospital Stay at Seattle Children's (PDF) (Spanish)

Your EEG Test

Shows what it is like to get an EEG test as an inpatient or outpatient.

• What to Expect During Your Inpatient EEG at Seattle Children's (PDF) (Spanish)
• What to Expect During Your Outpatient EEG at Seattle Children's (PDF) (Spanish)
• What to Expect During Your Outpatient EEG at Seattle Children's North Clinic (PDF)

Your TMS Study

What a child can expect when they come to Seattle Children's for a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study.

• What to Expect During Your TMS Study at Seattle Children's (PDF)

Your VPD Clinic Appointment

Explains what you might do during an appointment with the velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD) clinic.

• What to Expect When You Come to the VPD Clinic At Seattle Children's (PDF) (Spanish)

Visiting Your Sibling in the ICU or NICU

Helps siblings prepare to visit their brother or sister in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

• What to Expect When You Visit Your Sibling in the Intensive Care Unit (PDF) (Spanish)
• What to Expect When You Visit Your Sibling in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PDF) (Spanish)

Radiology Diagnostic Tests

Preparing for and understanding the tests.

• What to Expect When You Come for the Urodynamics Study (UDS) at Seattle Children’s (PDF) (Dari) (Spanish)
• What to Expect When You Come for Your CEVUS at Seattle Children’s (PDF)
• What to Expect When You Get a Contrast Enema at Seattle Children's Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center (PDF)
• What to Expect When You Get a VCUG (Voiding Cysto Urethrogram) at Seattle Children's (PDF)
• What to Expect When You Get a VCUG (Voiding Cysto Urethrogram) at Seattle Children's Bellevue (PDF)
• Watching an MRI awake
• Watching an MRI with anesthesia