Snowpocalypse baby boom
There seems to be a baby boom in our area. The culprit? The massive snow storms that hit the Baltimore region earlier this year.
If you recall, my colleague Jill Rosen was looking for mothers-to-be due in September or November who suspect their bundle of joy is a blizzard baby on this blog.
She writes about the snow baby boom in today's paper:
Hospitals are gearing up to prepare for an autumn boom, booking sonogram appointments has become tricky, parent education classes are full and expectant mothers are fighting for mat space at baby yoga.
OK, I know there are skeptics out there, but don't tell that to Dr. Judith Rossiter, head of obstetrics at St. Joseph Medical Center. She says women started coming in for their first-trimester sonograms in April and the hospital had trouble handing the rush.
The hospital has seen a 14 percent hike in ultrasounds since then. Rossiter attributes the baby boom to the snow storms.
"Absolutely — no question in my mind," the doctor says. "People were stuck — and for a long time. I'm going to leave the rest to the imagination. Dot. Dot. Dot."
Jill also talked to three couples, including Shelley Curreri, a 29-year-old court clerk from Halethorpe, who's expecting twin boys.
At Aberdeen Proving Ground, Curreri's husband, Sam, who works there as an electrician, is just one of three men whose wives are due within days of each other in November.
"They all put two and two together," she says. "It's the blizzard."
Congrats to all the expectant parents!
Comments
Every other female I pass in the hall, mall, grocery store, school, job, street and any place else you can think of is pregnant and most are having babies in September, most of these babies are girls. I sure hope that there isnt a blizzard this winter or ohohoh
Posted by: Tia MacKinnon | August 26, 2010 1:33 PM
This sounds like something that would have happened during my grandmother's time. It's 2010, did people forget to use their birth control over the winter months? I know I didn't! I mean either you want to have a baby or you don't. Seems weird that a blizzard would make that decision.
Posted by: Kim Moore | August 26, 2010 2:02 PM
My daughter, Colleen Catherine, was born Sept. 15 at Mercy Hospital. She was conceived on Christmas night 2009, with snow piled up on the streets from the great December 2009 blizzard. Doctors and hospitals are taking this seriously and they are gearing up with extra personnel for the onslaught of new babies. My daughter is on the early edge of the Blizzard Baby Boom.
Posted by: Joe Kelly | September 23, 2010 2:37 PM