HSHS St. Vincent Hospital is reporting a baby boom. https://t.co/5KFgusbcwD
— WBAY-TV 2 (@WBAY) May 6, 2025
You would expect there to be a lot of babies at a hospital's Women and Infant's Center, but in that unit at HSHS St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin, it's the staff who is hard at work adding to the number. Right now, there are 14 nurses in the maternity unit who are all pregnant! They were able to gather eleven of them at once for this picture. But it's not a record, because this has happened before.
In 2018, 16 nurses from the intensive care unit of the Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona were pregnant at the same time. In 2019, 36 NICU nurses at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, were simultaneously pregnant. That could be a record. In 2022, there were 14 nurses from the NICU and Labor & Delivery department of Saint Luke's East Hospital in Lee's Summit, Missouri, expecting at once. In 2023, 11 nurses in the 2 West Inpatient Surgical Unit at the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans' Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, were pregnant at the same time.
However, there are a few things that make hospital nursing crews different from the general population.
1. Hospitals are overwhelmingly staffed by women nurses in their 20s and early 30s, many of them right out of nursing school. As they gain experience, nurses tend to move on to doctor's offices, clinics, and specialties, so their hospital hires more young nurses.
2. These professionals have already put off having children while they finished school, and now they have insurance.
3. Three out of these five stories involve nurses working with infants, and that tends to make you want one of your own.
4. We know how many women were involved, but we don't know how large the total nursing staffs of these units are. The size of some of these hospitals is astonishing. Still, we can assume the percentage is remarkable enough for the local news to cover it.
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