美国医院一个科室16名护士几乎同时怀孕

There’s a baby boom in an Arizona hospital and it’s not coming from the maternity ward.

亚利桑那州的一家医院出现了生育高峰，但这并不是来自产科病房。

Sixteen nurses who work in the intensive care unit of the Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa are pregnant.

在梅萨班纳沙漠医疗中心重症监护病房工作的16名护士同时怀孕了。

I know a couple of us did fertility treatments, nurse Paige Packard said at a news conference Friday.

“我知道我们几个人做过生育治疗，”护士佩奇.帕卡德上周五在新闻发布会上说。

That’s how I ended up finding out that everyone was pregnant. I was like, ’Oh, well, I didn’t plan this. Did we have some kind of pact going I didn’t know about?’ Packard said.

帕卡德说，“突然就发现所有人都怀孕了”。我当时的反应是，“哦，好吧，这不是我的计划。我们之前有过约定，我一点也不知道”。

There was no pact. The baby fever is just a happy coincidence.

没有什么约定，同时怀孕只是一个幸福的巧合。

The nurses said they all like to go to the cafeteria together to satisfy pregnancy cravings. One said she asked a cafeteria worker whether he could make the salad bar more "pregnancy-friendly," and suggested the cafeteria add pickles and olives.

护士们说她们都喜欢一起去自助餐厅吃饭。其中一人说，她问过一位自助餐厅的工作人员，是否可以让沙拉更“适合怀孕”，并建议自助餐厅加泡菜和橄榄。

The next day there were pickles and olives, the nurse said.

“第二天就有泡菜和橄榄，”护士说。

The nurses also said patients have started to notice the growing bellies at the ICU.

护士们还说，病人们已经开始注意到重症监护病房护士们的腹部越来越大。

A Banner official said the hospital has been planning for the looming nurse shortage for months now. The nurses, who are due between September and February, will go on maternity leave for 12 weeks.

一位发言人说，医院已经为即将到来的护士短缺做了准备计划。这些护士的预产期是9月到2月，她们将休12周的产假。

The 16 nurses are from three different critical care units, said Heather Francis, nursing director for various ICU units at Banner.

“这16名护士来自三个不同的重症监护病房，”班纳ICU病房护理主任希瑟.弗兰西斯说。

The hospital gave each pregnant nurse a special onesie to celebrate the occasion.

医院给怀孕的护士们举办了一个特别的仪式来庆祝这个幸福时刻。

The onesies say: "Relax... my mom is a Banner Nurse!"

一名护士对肚子里的宝宝说:“放松…我妈妈是一名班纳护士!”