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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Baby boom nine months after storm 

# posted by Damon @ 10/19/2005 02:07:00 PM

The storm that swept over southern Sweden in January, leaving thousands without power and destroying swathes of woodland, has finally brought some good news: a baby boom.
Couples in the Borås area clearly found plenty to do in the darkness that followed "Storm Gudrun": the birth rate in the town during the past week is twenty times higher than in the same week last year.

“Many people were without electricity for a long time, so this could continue well into November,” midwife Louise Loubelo told Swedish Radio.
Last week – nine months and one week after the storm – saw 63 babies born in Borås hospital’s maternity unit, twenty more than during the previous week

The Local - Sweden's News in English

4 comments

Yup, thats classic. I beleive they have correlated the same to many other disaster type events.

Bowchika wow wow

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:35:00 PM  

It kinda makes sense biologically if you think about it. "Shit! The world is ending! Procreate! Procreate!"

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:01:00 AM  

or a simple, "lets bang before the candle burns out"

By  ron, at Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:35:00 PM  

or a simple, "bang this candle or I'll end you"

...erm.....

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:58:00 PM  

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