. >> for tyrione's mother lashay welsh, it's an agonizing time. >> i really can't do anything, but just stand by and watch, and wait. and it's a long wait. >> but lashay can't stay with him. a single mother with three other children, her earnings keep the family just above the poverty line. >> my doctor's had put me on light duty, and my job didn't honor the light duty. our welfare is not enough to support me and my children, so i had to go back to work full duty. >> after working an overnight shift, finishing at 7 in the morning, lashay started having contractions. she was rushed to hospital and gave birth. but now she has to get back to work. >> i hate to say it this way, but i'm kinda glad that he did come now and that he's gonna be in the hospital for the next couple of months, so that i can work. >> so that's actually, oxygen being pushed in? >> even if a baby can be saved in a nicu, its an outcome and a cost doctors say could be prevented. >> you're talking about several thousand dollars per day. so if you have a baby that is in the hospital for 8 months, the math is pretty easy -