No parent wants to be in the intensive care nursery. It's a frightening, often overwhelming place full of alarms, machines, doctors, and nurses-and, most terrifying of all, full of tiny babies fighting to survive. Parents who had planned to welcome their child home are faced with seeing that child weeks, maybe months earlier than planned, covered in a bewildering array of equipment keeping him or her alive. In such a situation, fear is understandable.
