DR. RIA MASLOG MFOR OCT 1, 2023 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)September is Neonatal Awareness Month. In observance of this celebration , the Allied Care Experts Medical Center- Bohol (ACEMC-Bohol) invited all our NICU graduates for a mini reunion on September 27, 2023. We aimed to honor the staff at the NICU who labored day and night to care for our little warriors. The event also made us see how our graduates are doing after 3 years since we opened and started our hospital operation. Indeed, it was a joy and blessing that our NICU graduates are growing so healthily and actively. Our pediatric neonatologist, Dr. Shary Manuta Baton, was full of happiness watching the premise she cared for so full of energy during the activity.It is here in the Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where the high risk infants are placed and closely monitored. However, only a few hospitals have NICU due to the high cost of equipment, maintenance and availability of experienced and well- trained personnel. An ideal set-up would have respiratory, cardiac rate, oxygen concentration and temperature monitoring. There must be a full time neonatologist, pulmonologist and cardiologist and trained nursing staff members.Who are usually placed in the NICU? Babies who need monitoring like:- small for gestational age- large for gestational age- prematures- postmatures and- those who have poor apgar score at birth. These newborns are only discharged from the NICU when they are clinically stable, thriving and growing.