Flordia baby-boom 9 months after hurricanes....

[emad]

Look what the wind's blown in
By Tom Leonard in New York
(Filed: 09/06/2005)

A baby boom is under way in Florida nine months after a series of hurricanes started to hit the area.

The hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne stranded thousands of people in their homes, which were left without electricity. Now the birth rate is up on average by a quarter in the region.

At Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach there have been 25 per cent more deliveries than a year ago.

"There was no electricity, they were spending a lot of time at home, there were candles and I'll leave the rest up to you," a hospital spokesman told the Orlando Sentinel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/09/whurr09.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/09/ixworld.html

[MissMillie]

1. And just what form of birth control requires electricity???

:shrug:

[MadHound]

2. None, but

How many pharmacies, grocery stores, and other places to purchase birth control products were left standing, much less open for business in the aftermath of the hurricanes?

Nature just taking its course.

[Misunderestimator]

7. LOL

[Bill McBlueState]

3. Snopes hasn't covered this yet,

But they do refute a similar claim about the NYC blackout of 1965. The hurricane claim is suspect for similar reasons.

Claim: Nine months after the Great Blackout of 1965, the birth rate in New York City increased dramatically.

Status: False.

Origins: Despite initial reports of New York City hospitals' seeing a dramatic increase in the number of births nine months after the 1965 blackout, later analyses showed the birth rate during that period to be well within the norm.

...

As J. Richard Udry stated at the conclusion of his article about the effect of the New York City blackout on the birth rate, it "is evidently pleasing to many people to fantasize that when people are trapped by some immobilizing event which deprives them of their usual activities, most will turn to copulation."

Full article at http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.htm

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. But I saw all about it in that movie

with Doris Day !

[magnolia]

5. It was the same thing after Hurricane Isabel.

We went weeks without electricity. What else is there to do at night in the dark! You're definitely not fighting over the remote.

[amazona]

6. I'm guessing it will be a fake like the 9-11 baby boom

Remember all the stories about babies supposedly born 9 months after 9-11? And a year or so later it was admitted to be a hoax, yet it played in all the media.

[Lowell]

8. I find that a little hard to believe

twice we were with out electricity for over a week where I live (Florida Gulf coast). Trust me, it was too damn hot at night to even think about anything remotely resembling exercise.

[progmom]

9. my obstetrician told me there was a huge spike in pregnancies

in the months after 9/11 :shrug: