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What is the NICU?
The NICU is the neonatal intensive care unit and its also known for a nursery for premature babies. The NICU specializes just for premture babies which are babies who were born early or babies who werent healthly when they came out. The NICU has many workers also know as neonatologists. They always have somebody in the NICU to watch over the premature babies. The nurse's in the NICU have to keep a good eye on them and they gotta make sure they give the babies the right amount of medicine because is they mess up the baby could die. Every hosptial that delivery's babies has a NICU. That is what the NICU is. I know that the NICU helps premature babies and they help the baby breath when they come out if there not breathing but not every baby has to go to the NICU when there born. "You hear so many people talk about the March of Dimes in terms of preemies, but it is about every healthy baby that is born," Heidi said. "I was speaking earlier this year and had one mother who came up to me and said she never realized just how much they did" (Christensen). She is talking about the NICU and how it helped her baby. That paragraph helps me understand it alot more. It helps me because it tells me what the NICU is.