When my daughter was born, we were in a NICU that had bays and there were about 12 babies a bay. It was loud, busy, congested. I hated it. When she was transferred to Boston, we had our own room (pretty much) except when there was another baby who needed ECMO. We were in the "ECMO suite." At any given time, there was no more than one other family. It was soooooo nice! Then we went back to the congested NICU. =( Luckily they built a new one that opened less than a year after we left so families don't have to deal with that anymore.