When a mother has a high risk pregnancy, there is a possibility that her baby could be born prematurely, and would need to be placed in the NICU, or neonatal intensive care unit. There is also the chance that a baby could be delivered unexpectedly early to a mother with a normal pregnancy. Regardless of how the preterm delivery came about, many parents are faced with thereality of having a baby in the NICU.
The goal of this article is to prepare parents for what they can expect to see when …