For the parents of sick and premature babies, some weighing less than a pound and no bigger than a can of cola, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — the “Baby E.R.” — is their one bastion of hope during the most terrifying moments of their lives, when their children's very survival hangs in the balance. Given unprecedented access to this normally private world, Humes is able to reveal this poignant, dramatic and inspiring story through the eyes of the parents who lived through it, and who shared their innermost thoughts, joys and heartbreaks with him during the long days and nights at their babies' sides. Enter Baby E.R. with Humes as he attends the midnight deliveries, the harrowing Code Blues, the heart-wrenching setbacks; be there when a young mother first holds her son when he finally emerges from the incubator, and for the triumphant day of discharge, when families are at last made whole.