Join us at 2:00pm EST on Sunday, September 3rd for our monthly support group meeting! We will be welcoming Katelyn Kirk, an OR nurse who has helped many women with high-risk pregnancies prepare for their C-sections during her career. She is also the mother of an O baby and an active member in the MOO group.  As always, everyone from the omphalocele community is welcome (parents of new O babies, experienced parents with older O children, pregnant mothers or expectant family members, grandparents, friends, adult omphalocele survivors) and you are all an important part of our group.

Katelyn Kirk, BSN, RN
Katelyn was born and raised in Maine and moved to Nashville, TN for nursing school in 2011. She graduated from Belmont University in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She was hired for her first nursing job soon after on a high-risk obstetrics floor, where she worked for 6.5 years. In that time she encountered many different conditions that could make a pregnancy high-risk, including some babies diagnosed with an omphalocele. Katelyn has helped many women prepare for and recover from C-sections throughout her career. In 2022, she became pregnant with her first child and found out at 17 weeks that her baby had a giant omphalocele, including partial liver, small bowel, and stomach. In January 2023, Katelyn underwent a C-section of her own and delivered a baby girl at 37 weeks gestation.