But Lam and others on the frontlines of neonatal care say this is not true.
Like all advanced medical science, neonatal care is extremely expensive.
Until recently, neonatal care involved little more than warm blankets and supplemental oxygen.
Many on the medical staff acknowledged that working in neonatal intensive care can be stressful.
She is a registered nurse specializing in neonatal intensive care.
This shows how important such adjustments can be for units that provide neonatal intensive care.
Including neonatal intensive care, the bill is likely to amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Provide time to move a mother to a hospital that provides neonatal intensive care, if her local hospital does not.
Of the 165 babies 149 were admitted to neonatal intensive care after the delivery.
It has been a difficult month: a rotation in neonatal intensive care.