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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation neonatal intensive care unit
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- initialism neonatal ICU; Initialism of neonatal intensive care unit.
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For the record, anything written that takes place in the NICU is a composite of 17 years of NICU nursing experience in four different hospitals and hundreds and hundreds of patients and families.
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For the record, anything written that takes place in the NICU is a composite of 17 years of NICU nursing experience in four different hospitals and hundreds and hundreds of patients and families.
here’s a story of a bloggy lady « Adventures in Juggling 2007
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He ended up staying in NICU for a week and I went home in a daze.
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Mazel tov, and my fingers crossed that their stay in the NICU is short.
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At 32 weeks I went into premature labor, had an emergency c section and my daughter spent 2 weeks in NICU on a ventilator, in an incubator and on feeding tubes.
A, B, C-Section kittenpie 2008
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Our baby spent a couple of days in NICU after birth.
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This was a big, HUGE thing in NICU care and pretty much changed our ability to rescue babies born much too soon.
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This was a big, HUGE thing in NICU care and pretty much changed our ability to rescue babies born much too soon.
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And the busy, hectic atmosphere in the NICU is stressful.
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And the busy, hectic atmosphere in the NICU is stressful.
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