Baby boom at Arizona hospital with 16 pregnant nurses
Ababy boom is brewing at a suburban Arizona hospital where 16 intensive care nurses recently discovered they are all pregnant. The nurses at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa outside Phoenix joked they thought there was something in the water when it became clear they were all expecting babies between October and January, according to AP.
Nurse Rochelle Sherman, nearly eight months along, said: “I don’t think we realized just how many of us were pregnant until we started a Facebook group.”
Nurse Jolene Garrow joked, “We all formulated this plan to have the holidays off!”
Garrow said that as their pregnancies have progressed, the patients have begun noticing that most of the nurses around them are expecting. One patient insisted on touching her belly the night before, she said.
Garrow added that their non-pregnant colleagues have been great at helping with patients they should not be exposed to because of conditions or treatments that are potentially dangerous for expectant women, such as tuberculosis or shingles or chemotherapy because of the radiation.
But Ashley Adkins worried that the other nurses are getting tired of their pregnancy-focused conversations.
“They just their eyes!” she laughed. “More baby talk!”
Hospital officials noted that the Banner medical center chain has a pool of floating nurses that should ensure shifts are covered when their ICU nursing specialists begin taking their 12-week maternity leaves starting in the fall.
The nurses said their colleagues are throwing a group baby shower next week.
The hospital on Friday gave the women onepiece rompers reading, “Relax! My mom is a Banner nurse!” roll Numerous drivers had to pull over on a California highway when a case of nails spilled onto the roadway and damaged their tires.
The California Highway Patrol said multiple vehicles stopped on southbound Highway 101, near the Conejo Grade, so nails could be removed from their tires, UPI wrote.
Authorities said the nails, first reported to police about 3:49 p.m., apparently spilled into the two leftmost lanes of the road.
It was unclear how the nails came to be spilled.
Caltrans crews were summoned to the scene to clean up the nails and assist drivers with removing them from their tires.
CHP said the nails were cleaned up by 6:00 p.m.