Here's an item you may have missed this week. I've always heard the "land of sky blue waters" has "the water best for brewing," but never knew it meant brewing babies.
La Crosse Doctor Delivers Four Sets Of Twins In 24 Hours
Physician Delivered Nine Babies During Shift
UPDATED: 12:08 pm CST November 27, 2007
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- You can excuse Dr. Kenneth Merkitch if he's seeing double these days.
Merkitch has been an obstetrician-gynecologist at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse for 19 years, but he's never experienced a 24-hour on-call period like the one he put in over the Thanksgiving weekend when he delivered four sets of twins on Friday and Saturday.
Merkitch said that he probably has never delivered two sets of twins during an on-call day before. He said the odds of it happening are astronomical.
He also delivered another baby during his shift. He can't recall ever delivering nine babies on a similar shift.
Another set of twins also was born at the medical center on Thanksgiving Day.
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