TO THE NEONATAL PROFESSIONAL, the scene is common: the shell-shocked father, looking totally lost and stricken with worry, coming into the NICU behind a team rolling an incubator containing a tiny and fragile infant. At a later point, the mother visits her baby for the first time and is overwhelmed to see her child hooked up to medical equipment. The parents may know little about the equipment surrounding the cocoon of the incubator and even less about the seriousness of their child’s condition. But they do know that if their child is in the NICU, then he is in danger.