The bride, new to the hospital, was a neonatal nurse and the bridegroom a resident in medicine and pediatrics.

One of us had been a neonatal intensive-care nurse and the other is a pediatric nurse.

For most of the 40 neonatal nurses at Bridgeport, work often goes past their scheduled hours each week, Mrs. Hill explained.

She said that she and her husband, Michael, relied on the neonatal nurses who cared for their daughters.

As a neonatal intensive-care nurse, Lisa Schwartz frequently saw the problem: parents of chronically ill youngsters could not find a day-care center for them.

"No one wants a sappy neonatal nurse," she said.

Healthcare institutions have varying entry-level requirements for neonatal nurses.

There are three different levels of neonatal nursery where a neonatal nurse might work:

The standard transport team consisted of a neonatologist, a neonatal registered nurse, and a driver who could also serve as an assistant to the team.

It is staffed by neonatalogists and neonatal nurses.