There’s a baby boom in an Arizona hospital and it’s not coming from the maternity¹ ward².

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 pact³ 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 pregnancy⁴ cravings. One said she asked a cafeteria worker whether he could make the salad bar more "pregnancy-friendly," and suggested the cafeteria add pickles⁵ 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 bellies⁶ 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 looming⁷ 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!”