'Bit of a shocker': 14 nurses at 1 Wisconsin hospital are pregnant at the same time

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Oh, however the tables person turned. Fourteen nurses astatine a Wisconsin birthing halfway are expecting babies of their own.

Ahead of Mother's Day, the HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Women and Infant Center successful Green Bay shared that much than a twelve of its registered nurses are expecting babies this year.

"This is an unthinkable full-circle infinitesimal for galore of our nurses, immoderate of which are astir to go archetypal clip moms themselves," HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Women and Infant Center Director Amy Bardon said successful a quality release. "Each of these women were already babe experts successful their ain rights, but for galore of them their firsthand acquisition offering attraction to an infant, and moms for that matter, is astir to further deepen."

'A small spot of a shocker'

Penned the "expert mom" by her colleagues, Ashlyn Short, RN, is expecting her 5th kid successful August. She's worked astatine HSHS St. Vincent Hospital since 2013 and the Women and Infant Center specifically since 2015.

Though the Women and Infant Center is choky knit, similar a "big family," Ashley Schiles, RN, told USA TODAY, the women were amazed astatine conscionable however galore of their colleagues were each expecting this year.

It was "a small spot of a shocker," Short told USA TODAY with a laugh.

Many of the women are friends successful and retired of enactment and Short said she's enjoyed being capable to supply tips and tricks to the first-time moms. Her 4 children, who are 2, 4, 7 and 9, person besides recovered it "pretty fun" seeing their mom's look connected television, arsenic the 14 women person been featured connected programs similar "Good Morning America."

Greta Cross is simply a nationalist trending newsman astatine USA TODAY. Story idea? Email her astatine gcross@usatoday.com.

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