Nurse Welcomes Daughter Mid-Shift. 22 Years Later, They’re NICU Coworkers (Unique)

In 2002, Stacey Giese, a NICU nurse in Wisconsin, was was working her 3 p.m. to three a.m. shift. Pregnant together with her fourth little one, Stacey’s anticipated due date was alleged to be just a few days later, however it did not prove that manner.

“There was an older RN that was working with me,” Stacey, 59, tells PEOPLE, “and she or he should have seen one thing in me that made her assume I used to be in labor.” On the time although, Stacey felt positive — however her colleague wasn’t satisfied and advised her, “Properly, yell out each time you will have a contraction.’ ”

Positive sufficient, a number of hours after her shift began, Stacey gave delivery to her child daughter Hannah at HSHS St. Vincent Youngsters’s Hospital in Inexperienced Bay.

Over twenty years later, Hannah, now 22, is following in her mom’s nursing footsteps — and in a full circle second, the 2 of them have labored collectively at St. Vincent’s NICU for practically a yr. 

Hannah tells PEOPLE that she heard the story about her unconventional delivery from her mom on a regular basis rising up. “I assumed [it] was hilarious,” she says, “I do know it by coronary heart now.”

On the day she gave delivery, Stacey — who has been with St. Vincent’s NICU for 38 years now — stored powering via, even when her contractions have been about three minutes aside.

“I can keep in mind saying to myself, ‘Suck it up buttercup,’ “ Stacey says. “I simply rotated and thought, ‘Okay, let’s simply maintain going right here, take a pair deep breaths and simply maintain my head centered on what I am doing.’ ”

“Then a few half hour later,” Stacey continues, “the cost nurse got here in and mentioned, ‘Hey, how are you doing?’ I mentioned, ‘Properly, it is getting fairly tough.’ ”

And it wasn’t lengthy earlier than she decided, saying, “I am getting on this mattress and having a child.”

Hannah is the one certainly one of her siblings to change into a nurse, a profession path she first realized she needed to pursue whereas nonetheless in highschool.

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Since working together with her mom on the NICU, she’s realized things like caring for infants, adhering to requirements and procedures, and talking with dad and mom. 

“It has been nice,” Hannah says. “I’ve realized loads. I actually have lots of people to put again on, speak to speak issues over. Even the folks within the NICU are implausible.”

For Stacey, having a daughter comply with in her footsteps is gratifying “It is form of cool that the legacy goes on,” she says. “I do know she’s going to be a powerful worker, a powerful NICU nurse. She’s nice at scientific pondering, so she’s in an ideal place for her. So I take pleasure in seeing her undergo that.”