ATX Good News with Bethany Hammons: Women’s Services Nurse Gives Birth on Her Own Unit

A nurse at Texas Children's Hospital Austin Pavilion for Women and her family welcome a new daughter just in time for Mother's Day -- in the very unit where she works!

Bethany Hammons is an operating room nurse and gave birth on the unit where she works, with the help and support of her coworkers. Baby girl Hazel Hammons was born on 5/7/25 at 3:41 p.m., weighing 5 lb 3 oz and measuring 17.75 inches. Parents Bethany and Michael Hammons are overjoyed, and her big brother, Leland, got to meet his new sister on her birthday.