In the last 20 years, pediatric and neonatal wards at the medical center have more than tripled and there still isn't enough room.

The projections, based on neonatal intensive-care admissions data from 1983 to 1987, cover only those children admitted to neonatal wards.

Pacifiers are commonly used to comfort babies in the neonatal wards where the infants are sometimes given nutrients by tube.

Nurses in neonatal wards go from incubator to incubator, disconnecting the life-support systems.

Unfortunately, treatment of GDM is also accompanied by more infants admitted to neonatal wards and more inductions of labour, with no proven decrease in cesarean section rates or perinatal mortality.

While Ford was applying for college, lethal strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae were surfacing in neonatal wards all over the world, proving fatal to three quarters of infected babies under two months of age.