This year, at least 17 nurses on the same unit at a hospital in Ohio are all expecting babies, surpassing the previous record established by the Miami Valley Hospital staff in Dayton.
Miami Valley’s labor and delivery unit’s nursing manager, Amberly Saner, told ABC News on Monday:
“It’s exciting,” “We kind of found out over a period of a couple of months how many people were pregnant and it just kept growing and growing.”
According to a Miami Valley news release, the unit’s previous record was 11 employees expecting infants at the same time. Recently, fifteen of the seventeen nurses, all wearing matching uniforms, gathered at the hospital for a group shot.
While some people are expecting their first child, others are expecting their second or more children. Among them are nurses Maddie and Rileigh, who asked to be referred to solely by their first names due to privacy concerns.
Maddie revealed to ABC News that she is expecting her second child and is 26 weeks along in her pregnancy. Rileigh is roughly 31 weeks along with her second child.
Additionally, both nurses have spent the last five years working at Miami Valley.
Saner stated that the unit, which employs close to 200 nurses and support nurses, does not anticipate that the changes would have an effect on staffing, despite the fact that many nurses are anticipated to take maternity leave in the upcoming months.
