MINEOLA, N.Y. _ It seems pregnancy is contagious among the mother-and-newborn-care staff at NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola _ 15 women in the labor and delivery unit and the adjacent neonatal intensive care unit are due to give birth between now and October.
"We should make an announcement: 'Anybody else? Come forward now,' " joked Katelyn O'Connor, 31, a physician assistant from Stamford, Conn., who is due to have a boy on June 6.
"Everyone says, 'Don't drink the water here," said Kimberly Fan, 29, of Merrick, a nurse due to have a boy on Aug. 6.
