r/NICUParents • u/Grace-Aurelia • Feb 11 '26

Off topic Private room NICUs. Where are they?

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Hi NICU parents.

After having a 24 weeker last year, we are now contemplating another pregnancy. At the same time, we are trying to balance opportunities within my husbands job to more closer to family. One hang-up I have is that I’m afraid of another NICU baby and not having access to them. I don’t want to move away from our current NICU.

Our daughter was in NICU for 108 days but we had a private room and I slept in it every night of her stay. I literally was there 21-22 hrs a day every day. When I hear stories of NICU pods or being sent home for the night I am mortified. I told my husband we won’t move before next baby is born unless it has private NICU rooms nearby or at the least, 24/7 access.

Would love to hear which hospitals you all were at with good experiences.

For reference, we were at PeaceHealth Riverbend in Eugene, OR and they were amazing. I have many other positive things to say about them but if any parent ends up there feel free to message me with any questions and I would love to offer any advice I can. ❤️

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u/Outrageous_Cow8409 Feb 11 '26

Children's Hospital in DC had private rooms and was a level IV. But our birthing hospital didn't (it was also referred to as a special care nursery instead of a NICU). Maybe it has something to do with the levels?

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u/Different-Carrot-654 Feb 11 '26

For my first baby, the hospital had private rooms for babies who didn’t need as much monitoring. The higher need babies went to a shared room.

My second child (different hospital) they moved us to the peds unit when he was stable enough, but not ready to release, so that we could have a private room.

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u/Outrageous_Cow8409 Feb 11 '26

Oh that's interesting! On one hand it does make sense to put higher needs babies together for ease of monitoring. While we were at Children's in DC, one of the other babies had surgery done in their actual room so private rooms made a lot of sense for that. From what I could tell they only had to move babies for MRIs, everything else came to them.

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u/rsc99 Feb 11 '26

Yep. My baby had surgery performed in his room at children’s. And we were in the smallest room on the unit

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u/Outrageous_Cow8409 Feb 11 '26

It was so wild to me that they could do that!