Dr Sam Oddie, a consultant in the neonatal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary, is leading the study.
And it has to be: Roughly half of the neonatal unit's 49 infants are being treated for drug dependence.
She said it was only after she had told the midwives that Brook was taken away for resuscitation and then transferred to the neonatal unit.
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In addition, more babies born to obese women required admission to the neonatal unit and were more likely to require assistance with feeding and maintaining body temperature.
The Belfast Trust was also criticised over its handling of the pseudomonas outbreak in January, which claimed the lives of three babies at the Royal Jubilee Maternity's neonatal unit.
Contributing to the debate on behalf of Plaid Cymru, Jocelyn Davies AM agreed that there was a "critical shortage" of neonatal staff and said that "every neonatal unit in Wales is affected".
One baby died from the infection at the neonatal unit in Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry in December 2011, and three in the neonatal unit at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast the following month.
The study takes into account all NHS costs associated with the birth itself - such as midwifery care during labour and immediately after the birth, the cost of pain relief in hospital, and the cost of any stay in hospital or neonatal unit immediately after the birth, either by the mother or the baby.
She spent her first eight days in the neonatal intensive care unit at a regional medical center.
"The five babies are doing quite well right now, " Dr. Gary Burgess, medical director of the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, said Monday.
She was one of two babies who died from the bug which led to a two week closure of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
When Noah, his second child, was born in 1999, he had to be sent to the neonatal intensive care unit because of breathing troubles.
Petersburg, Fla, but my daughter would not, contracting a hospital-born infection in the neonatal intensive care unit where she died June 1 of that same year.
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As a paediatric nurse I once worked in a neonatal intensive care unit in England and it is undoubtedly true that the majority of these very early babies will not survive.
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But given the risks of loose blankets, "it's the only way to go, " says Marilyn Maggioncalda, clinical nurse specialist in the neonatal intensive care unit at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Mich.
The man approached Battle, while she was caring for his child in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, asking to speak to her supervisor, according to the complaint filed in January by Battle's attorney.
They have lined up two cribs with no extra bedding along their bedroom wall for daughter Macy and son Reid, and have a third ready for Lena, who is still in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Other reports noted that personnel were carrying babies from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and children from the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) down 9 flights of stairs to evacuate them from the building.
And by placing the MRI machine in the neonatal intensive care unit at Evelina Children's Hospital in London they are one of the few centres in the world to have a scanner in such close proximity to the babies who often need it most, Prof Edwards says.
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Many patients were evacuated, but doctors were able to keep a makeshift neonatal intensive-care unit running for 26 babies--all of whom have been evacuated.
Insurers and employer groups have stepped up pressure to stop early-elective deliveries because they can lead to malpractice suits when things go wrong and much higher costs if a baby ends up in a neonatal intensive-care unit.
"Everything we do is a balance of risks and benefits for the infant, and we have to be vigilant to make sure we are not making things worse, " says Dan L. Ellsbury, director of the Center for Research, Education and Quality at Pediatrix Medical Group, a large neonatal physicians group and a unit of Mednax Inc.
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Several options are being considered, but the trust has said its preferred plan is to have consultant-led obstetric services, neonatal services including the special care baby unit, in-patient paediatric services and emergency gynaecology services at the Conquest Hospital in Hastings.
The trust is proposing to keep a consultant-led obstetric service and neonatal service at the Hastings and downgrade services at Eastbourne by having a midwife-led unit at the hospital.
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