System and method of monitoring the physiological conditions of a group of infants

A system for monitoring the physiological conditions of a plurality of infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the system comprising:

• a plurality of infant care stations, each infant care station configured for monitoring and treating a neonate infant, wherein each infant care station comprises a microenvironment, a motion sensor disposed about the microenvironment that detects motion of the infant, an environmental sensor that detects a first environmental condition of the microenvironment, and a processor that receives the detected motion of the infant and the first environmental condition and derives an indication of a stress level of the infant;
• a plurality of external environmental sensors positioned around the infant care stations that detect a second environmental condition outside of the microenvironments;
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• a central processor communicatively connected to each of the infant care stations and to each of the external environmental sensors, wherein the central processor compares signals from each of the infant care stations to signals from the external environmental sensors and determines correlations between the first environmental condition in each of the microenvironments, the second environmental condition outside of the microenvironments, and corresponding indications of the stress levels of the infants.