Baby boom! 14 NICU nurses pregnant at once at Missouri hospital

Oh, child! 

Fourteen neonatal nurses don’t simply assist ship infants, they’ll all have infants of their very own by December.

The nurses working within the NICU and labor and supply unit at Saint Luke’s East Hospital in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, fell pregnant on the similar time.

The primary to provide delivery was Caitlin Corridor, a labor and supply nurse. Her daughter Hunter was born on June 3.

Corridor initially thought she was the one one making an attempt to get pregnant and didn’t say a lot till the opposite bulletins started rolling in.

“I assumed I used to be the one one which was making an attempt to get pregnant,” she instructed Fox Information Digital. “It was my first being pregnant, so I used to be making an attempt to maintain quiet till about 12 weeks, however different individuals began asserting, so I instructed everybody as properly.” 

She stated {that a} new nurse would announce their being pregnant “about each two weeks.”

Corridor additionally was wanting ahead to connecting together with her sufferers higher after having given delivery herself.

The connections additionally increase to the nurses themselves. 

“Now we have such a distinct perspective as OB nurses, so to have the ability to expertise this all collectively has been such a aid but in addition actually thrilling to undergo this season collectively,” registered NICU nurse Ellie Kongs stated.

She is anticipated to provide delivery in late October.

Different hospitals have skilled related child booms. In 2019, 36 NICU nurses had been pregnant on the similar time at a Kansas Metropolis hospital and 9 nurses had been anticipating at a Maine hospital.

With one child down, there are 13 extra to go, that are a mixture of boys, women and those that favor to attend till the child’s born to study the intercourse.

Their hospital couldn’t be extra excited to welcome all of those bundles of pleasure. They stated in a Fb publish, “We are able to’t wait to spoil these mothers and infants similar to we do with each particular supply at Saint Luke’s.”