Thirty-one members of the staff at the St. Cloud Hospital’s Family Birthing Unit in St. Cloud, Minn., welcomed a total of 32 babies in 2018 ─ one had twins ─ doubling the previous in-house record set by staffers years before.
More than two dozen staffers at St. Cloud Hospital in Minnesota just gave birth to 32 babies. That means nearly one in five of the hospital’s staffers were pregnant at the same time.
To make things even more strange, Most moms were nurses, but doctors and other support staff were part of the trend, too.
“It was fun,” one mom said. “You’d see people walking down the hall and compare bellies.”
“He was our first so it was a big relief coming to work with everyone else being pregnant and be like, ‘Hey, is this normal? Is this normal?’ and just have that weight lifted off my shoulders,” added another mom.
The workers all reunited for a photo shoot, shouting “We’re the baby boom hospital” for the camera. Each youngster wore a onesie with a number on it that indicated the sequence in which they were born.
“This is the greatest part of your life and to experience that with your co-workers, your doctors that you love and trust — we get to be there for these big moments for each other,” a third mom said. “
