Towards the end of my pregnancy, the placing money was kind of a “hope” more than anything else because I was enormous and uncomfortable and itching so bad I wanted to peel my skin off with a cheese grater. From what I’d read, 35 weeks was the average, but I was placing money on anywhere from 32 to 36 weeks, regardless of anyone else’s expectations. I watched videos about babies in NICUs because I knew that twins have this tendency to come early. So that already makes the place a little different from what I’d expected. If that became the case for someone, they’d have that baby transported down the street to Memorial, where they have a Level III NICU for very sick babies. The nursery has lifesaving equipment in case of an emergency, but they couldn’t, for example, keep an infant on a CPAP for a very long time because they aren’t trained for that. Our hospital doesn’t really have a “NICU” per se it’s a special care nursery for babies born after 34 weeks (we made the cut-off, yay!) or born with some problems that aren’t necessarily life threatening ones.
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