Pregnancy Journals Recalls Safety Shopping Sleep Site Map Shop. Although you may talk with the nurses and doctors caring for your baby, you may not be communicating.
Communication means exchanging information and understanding one another.
If you do not understand what the doctors or nurses are saying, then you should ask more questions or ask for repeated explanations. Much of what you hear in the NICU is foreign to you. There are medical words that you have never heard. It is a time of stress for parents and sometimes for the NICU staff. No wonder it takes more than one explanation for you to understand what is happening with your baby.