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Daddy Brad: Welcome back to a very special edition of The Lab. We are here today at the
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
Daddy Clay: And today we're gonna learn about what's taking place in the very leading edge
of care for premature babies. Daddy Brad: Today's episode is brought to
you by BabyBjorn. Oexo-Tex certified, safe for your baby, BabyBjorn.
Daddy Clay: Come one, let's go inside and take a look.
Dr. Martin: When I think what makes a special, I think it's a combination of the physical
facility and the people and the staff. We have always had a staff, physician, nursing,
respiratory therapy, who have been so committed to the babies and their families. But we've
never really had a physical facility to match that and I think we can now show people like
yourself through here and we can say, you can really say, "Wow, this is nice." It's
quiet. In designing a new NICU, it's all single rooms. We had a lot of input from families
who had had a premature baby. If you've got a baby that's right jammed up against another
baby, that's got a very different problem, that is maybe quite fragile, maybe even unfortunately
dying or having a complication - this is very stressful if you're all in there together.
The privacy factor I think is so important. Everyone think's a preemie's a preemie and
all neonatal patients are the same, but they're really not. Almost every baby in this nursery
is either getting his or her own mother's milk. Or if that's not possible, is getting
donor milk. The anxiety level is considerably lower, but it's also that the staffing is
much easier. If the staff are calmer, I think the family, it'll translate into the family
well-being. I think NICU's are quieter, kinder, sort of gentler places now and I think that's
what it's all about.