Intensive care babies have one nurse to two babies, they are generally on some sort of breathing support.
Special Care babies have one nurse to 5-6 babies.

There is also a HDU (High Dependency Unit) I'm not entirely sure on the criteria for that unit, I *thought* that it was for those who were on breathing support for ages. But a couple of my friends babies went to HDU and they were on less support than Brendan was so then I *thought* it might have been based on weight, but then a friends baby born heavier and on less breathing support went there! So Im not really sure on that at all any more!

At KEMH in Perth, all the units are together in one nursery, there's 4 rooms, one for each level of care all in one big unit. However when we were there June 09 they were doing renovations to move the SCN, I believe it is now the NICU is seperate from the SCN but I could be wrong.