Our kiddo was born 6 weeks early and spent 37 days in NICU about a year ago. Ours was much as you described, except for the last half of it she was in a room th

Our kiddo was born 6 weeks early and spent 37 days in NICU about a year ago. Ours was much as you described, except for the last half of it she was in a room that was about the same size as a normal hospital room and her nurse was watching 3 kids instead of 2. The hospital she was at has 52 NICU beds total and every single one of them was full the entire time. During the first half of her stay she was in the high-level NICU ward. Still private rooms but much smaller and 2 to 1 nursing coverage. While she was there there were a handful of babies on ECMO (basically external blood oxygenation), which is terrifying as a parent.