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FWIW our California-born babies slept with us (and was never taken away from me, except to be cleaned and weighed, and I was right there next to them the whole

FWIW our California-born babies slept with us (and was never taken away from me, except to be cleaned and weighed, and I was right there next to them the whole time). The "room of cribs" was the neonatal intensive care unit. It was, thankfully, empty when we were there.

sangnoir 7y ago
> It was, thankfully, empty when we were there. uhmmm... Won't you rather wish they were not empty? I suppose it all depends on the manner of the emptying.
- mulmen 7y ago
  In a previous life I did tech support in a hospital. One day I was called down to the ER to fix a printer or some other routine thing. I was accustomed to the chaos of the ER but that day nothing was going on. I commented to a nurse that "it is dead in here". She promptly and firmly informed me that we don't say those kinds of things in the ER.
  - ArnoVW 7y ago
    Baby making activity is not randomly distributed throughout the year. Depending on where you live (i.e. when it is warm), the peak month changes. https://visme.co/blog/most-common-birthday/ https://visme.co/blog/most-common-birthday/
  - myself248 7y ago
    Every NOC (network operations center) I've ever been in, if you start to utter the phrase "sure is quiet today" or anything similar, someone tackles you to the ground before you finish it. You don't tempt fate like that!
- Rietty 7y ago
  I would reason that if the neonatal care units are empty, it means that all the children recently born were healthy and didn't need intensive care. :)