14 Nurses at Green Bay Birthing Center Pregnant at the Same Time
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Baby fever has struck one Wisconsin hospital’s birthing center.
A whopping 14 nurses are pregnant at the same time at HSHS St. Vincent Hospital’s Women and Infants Center in
Green Bay, the hospital said in a press release.
The announcement comes after National Nurses Week and just before Mother’s Day on Sunday, with the hospital celebrating the expecting nurses as “baby experts” who bring life into the world each day.
“This is an incredible full-circle moment for many of our nurses, some of which are about to become first time moms themselves,” the center’s director, Amy Bardon, said in a statement.
“Each of these women were already baby experts in their own rights, but for many of them their firsthand experience offering care to an infant, and moms for that matter, is about to further deepen,” Bardon continued.
In photos shared from the hospital, a handful of the nurses were all smiles while posing in their scrubs and holding their baby bumps.
Bardon explained in the release that “even before labor, these women have already built some really unique bonds with their colleagues, and I love that each of them has the chance to go through this special moment with each other.”
Two of the nurses, Anna Cody, and Molly Van Enkenvort, are due four days apart, Cody told WGBA, an NBC affiliate in Wisconsin.
“We’re all keeping tabs on each other, though,” Van Enkenvort said. “Like getting towing drills… yeah, water breaks… yeah, so we take care of each other — ginger-ales.”
Ashlyn Short added that some their patients have noticed the many pregnancies on the hospital floor.
“A lot of our patients will be walking down the hallway, and they’ll say, ‘There’s a pregnant one, there’s another one — all the nurses are pregnant!’” Short said.
The babies are all due between May and the fall.