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Something in the Water

“I feel like every other day we would come into work and it would be like, ‘someone else is pregnant’,” said Amanda Spear, a nurse at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. Nine of the nurses at the hospital’s Labor and Delivery Unit are expecting children. “Something is definitely in the water here at Maine Medical Center on the Labor and Delivery Unit,” said maternity nurse Brittney Verville. “It’s comforting knowing we’ll be taking care of each other,” said Samantha Giglio, another of the pregnant nurses. (RC/WCSH Portland, Portland Press Herald) ...Except they’ll be on maternity leave too.
Original Publication Date: 14 April 2019
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.

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