At Saint Luke’s East Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, a unique “baby boom” is underway. Fourteen nurses from the hospital’s Labor & Delivery and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are all expecting babies around the same time.
Leading the way was Caitlin Hall, a labor and delivery nurse, who became the first of the group to give birth. On June 3, she welcomed her daughter, Hunter.
On June 3, Hall welcomed her first child, a daughter named Hunter.
“I thought I was the only one trying to get pregnant,” Hall told Fox News Digital. “It was my first pregnancy, so I was keeping it quiet until about 12 weeks. But then other people started announcing, so I shared my news as well.”
From that point, the announcements just kept coming. “It seemed like every two weeks, someone else would say, ‘I’m pregnant,’” she recalled.
After becoming a mom herself, Hall says she can now connect with her patients on a deeper level. “I feel like I’ll be able to comfort new moms in ways I couldn’t before,” she explained.
Meanwhile, the Saint Luke’s family is preparing to welcome 13 more little ones. The expectant group includes both boys and girls—though a few of the moms have chosen to wait until delivery day to discover their baby’s gender.
The nurses’ due dates are spread throughout December, making the end of the year an especially joyful one for the hospital.
“We can’t wait to spoil these moms and babies just like we do with every special delivery at Saint Luke’s,” the hospital shared in a June 8 Facebook post.
Ellie Kongs, a NICU nurse at Saint Luke’s, said she feels grateful to be experiencing this unique season with her coworkers. Her own baby is due in late October.
“As OB nurses, we have such a different perspective on pregnancy,” Kongs explained. “To be able to go through it together has been such a relief—and really exciting too.”