How big was your NICU?

beachykeen1723 · November 2009

Just curious!

Ours has spaces for about 150 babies (right now they are at 116- yikes!!)

jehprb · November 2009

Wow - ours only had spaces for about 30 babies but the most in there during our stay was 24 and it was PACKED. Which is strange too seeing as how it is "the" NICU for our area including at least two other states.

twh2006 · November 2009

Ours is a small level 3. 15 beds, they have 6 babies counting mine now.

mek10976 · November 2009

ours had 48 beds. i don't think that included the private rooms for multiples.

TriciaJoy · November 2009

I think it was about 80. And it was full a few times, it definitely could get crowded. Now the step down unit has all private rooms, so that's fantastic. The level III & IV is still pretty cramped, though. A friend of mine just delivered a baby there (full term but with esophageal atresia) and she was pretty crowded in there back in the level IV area.

KellyMichelle · November 2009

Ours had space for about 50 beds in level 3, level 2 was bigger.

gizmo909 · November 2009

Ours was a level 3 with 22 rooms. Everyone has a private room except for 3 that were adjoined with another room with large sliding glass doors for multiples. Those rooms could be individual though. All rooms also have 2 monitor screens, etc. in each room so that if they needed, each room could have 2 babies instead of being private.

lemen99 · November 2009

80 something!

kkh2002 · November 2009

Our Level III had room for maybe 35-40 beds if you count the isolation rooms.

christiney06 · November 2009

wow. those are some big units. ours was a max capacity of about 14! this was the suburban hospital closer to my house that I delivered at. when I was in Boston the first half of my bed rest the NICU was still probably only 50 or so tops. it's a major hospital too.

Rachel&Joe · November 2009

I think 20 was the max at our NICU. It was a level III facility I think. I think babies only ended up in private rooms if they needed to be in isolation for some reason. Otherwise, the spaces were just separated by curtains.

franciscaz · November 2009

Level III had 25 beds, transitional had 5 beds, and Level II had 15 beds.

Kaytee1206 · November 2009

Ours was 64 beds and was separated into pods A-G depending on how critical the baby was. A-pod was never opened while we were there, but I heard it does fill up occasionally.

goblue · November 2009

Ours had about 60 beds in level III and IV. The transitional care nursery had about 9 beds, and there was also a special care nursery (mostly full-term or near full-term with feeding issues) with 9 beds, I think.

All the nurseries was frequently full - that's how DS got moved to the transitional care nursery (step-down nursery). He was the healthiest of the really sick. And then once we were in transitional care (for 7 weeks!) DS got sent home a day early because they needed bedspace (we were very ready too!! ).

southphilly · November 2009

75 I believe and about 10 of those were transitional

clyoungsey · November 2009

NICU level 3 45 beds

Step Down (SCN) level 2 14 beds

Always at capacity the whole time we were there...so sad

ssg73 · November 2009

70 beds total for level 3 and level 2. There were 4 nurseries A-D each with 2 sides. B and C were the nurseries with the most critical babies A and D were the intermediate nurseries. They were at capacity or close to capacity the whole time we were there. The week after we left they had to send all babies born over to Children's (which is attatched to the hospital I delivered at) since there was no room at our hopital.

AFwife1106 · November 2009

I think they had 40 isolettes on the main floor and then a 6 bed step down unit..

At1stsight · November 2009

Not sure exactly, but we were at one of the top 10 in the nation in NICU care, so it was very big, 3 wings of maybe 50 or so spaces per wing?

meldoo2002 · November 2009

Wow ours felt big when we were there, but I was just reading on their website and it's only 43 beds total. It's a level 3 NICU with 27 of them in 3 different Intensive Care Pods and 16 beds in the Continuing Care Nursery which is like a step down.

jcsntms06 · November 2009

I'm not sure how many babies it held, but it was a level 3 NICU. When we were there, they had 9 babies in the beginning and I think they day we left there was 6 babies.

sweetpea18 · November 2009

I delivered at a small hospital, but they still had a level lll nicu. They had 12 beds, plus a room for one set of multiples. Reese was the only baby there for the first 5 days she was in the nicu.

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