Nine months from now...

[katerkat]

What do you think the jump in baby births will be due to the power outtage?

 

[browneyes]

LOL! People have to do something when the power goes out.

 

[GailT]

I bet they will be high, what else do you so with no lights, no A/C, no TV......you make a baby!

 

[tar heel]

I'm not sure about this one. It is so doggone hot -- a lot different from the standard snow/ice storm that produces baby booms.

 

[Evil Princess]

There was nothing else to do

 

[powellrj]

LOL that was my DH first thought, mine was who would want to in this heat, I would want people to stay away!!!

 

[Bichon Barb]

Katerkat, I read this thread thinking that we were going to get some exciting news about you .

My first son was born in November of 1993. You would not believe all the babies due that December that were in our birth class. This was because of the big east coast snow storm of March 1993. We were at WDW when that storm hit. We were supposed to fly out that Saturday. We couldn't get out of Florida until Tuesday. Wahhhh, tough break. He-he. With both kids I was pregnant on trips to Disney and didn't know it. Now I'm scared everytime we go there. LOL.

 

[luv2nascar]

personally if my house was 90-95 degrees inside that would be the last thing I'd be thinking about. Thank goodness for central air.
I'd say a baby boom would be greater if this happened in winter
gotta stay warm. Baby I need your lovin gotta have all your lovin.

 

[fklhou]

I was thinking about this last night also. It will be interesting to see what happens.

 

[browneyes]

Originally posted by Bichon Barb
This was because of the big east coast snow storm of March 1993.

I was so thankful to already being 9 months pregnant when the storm hit that time, just because of the statistics.

 

[phamton]

Funny, I've never heard of any birth control that required electricity to be effective.
Actually this has be debunked here:
http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.htm and also here: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/babyboom.htm

Those who cling to the belief in blackout babies fail to accept that the same communities they point to as proof of the theory saw even greater leaps in number of births in years that weren't preceded by memorable events. Blackouts, snowstorms, and the like are more usually followed by perfectly ordinary birth rates nine months afterwards, but because human nature is what it is, we tend to remember only the events that fit the pattern we're determined to see and unconsciously discard all the rest, Thus, we'll recall that the Great Storm of 1983 was followed by a deluge of babies in the Fall of 1984, but we'll completely forget that the Great Storm of 1987 was followed by a perfectly ordinary turnout at the maternity hospitals in the Fall of 1988, or that the Great Baby Boom at the end of 1999 wasn't presaged by anything unusual that occurred in the Spring of 1999.

It is a common belief that the number of conceptions increases during natural disasters or crises that keep people confined within their homes for unexpectedly long periods of times. Nine months after such events — blackouts, blizzards, earthquakes, erupting volcanoes, ice storms, and even strikes by professional football players — reports about "baby booms" in local hospitals invariably appear in the media. However, these "booms" always turn out to be nothing more than natural fluctuations in the birth rate (or, in many cases, no variation in the birth rate at all). Of course, we never hear about these fluctuations when they are not preceded by some unusual event. (Conversely, when these fluctuations do occur, reporters go scrambling to find some earlier event to "blame" them on.)

 

[honeywolf7]

Originally posted by phamton
Funny, I've never heard of any birth control that required electricity to be effective.

Thank goodness

 

[Deb in IA]

Well, since most everyone was sleeping out in the STREET last night, it would have been, um, interesting to watch

 

[katerkat]

Originally posted by Bichon Barb
Katerkat, I read this thread thinking that we were going to get some exciting news about you .

Nah - wait a more couple years for that!

 

[Beauty]

Well some people could always go to the pool!

 

[wdwpluto]

It was just too darned hot for any of that last night! We played monopoly by candlelight instead.

 

[WishingStar]

Originally posted by Bichon Barb
Katerkat, I read this thread thinking that we were going to get some exciting news about you .

My first son was born in November of 1993. You would not believe all the babies due that December that were in our birth class. This was because of the big east coast snow storm of March 1993.

My oldest DD was born December 1993.(blush)

 

[dsneygirl]

Originally posted by katerkat
What do you think the jump in baby births will be due to the power outtage?

They were talking about this on the radio last night. We didn't get power until 4 am

 

[philaround]

Originally posted by katerkat
What do you think the jump in baby births will be due to the power outtage?

I don't think there will be a big jump. Most couples spent the night many miles apart.

 

[ncligs]

Originally posted by browneyes
LOL! People have to do something when the power goes out.

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