February 20, 2020 – Sometimes you read a title and you’re certain it’s a typo, and it turns out it was not. That’s what happened to me when I read a title saying that 15 babies were born during a single night of a baby boom in a Zagreb hospital.
On average, the maternity ward at the Merkur Clinical Hospital welcomes around seven babies a day. However, in one night (this past Thursday to Friday night) 15 babies were born, more than twice the usual daily number.
The doctors and the midwives and other staff at the hospital are, of course, quite tired after such a busy night, but they were ready to share some of the stories with the media. 24sata.hr writes about the eight little girls and 7 boys that were born, quoting Žana Žegarac, a OB-GYN from the hospital, who said that the hospital has enough capacity to house the mothers and the newborns for the time being.
The head midwife of the hospital, Silvija Virt, thinks that the staff at the maternity ward has some super-powers, which allow them to flawlessly manage every situation that occurs. Having that many births in one night was most certainly a challenge, but it was one that was successfully tackled, and everyone at the hospital is happy that the mothers and the babies are doing well.
Dr. Žegarac added that the number of births in the hospital is constantly on the rise, and this one night will feature prominently in any statistics.
