(May 12) - Some nine months ago, as Texas was walloped by Hurricane Ike, many residents took advantage of being stuck at home with no electricity and started making babies. According to the San Antonio Express-News, doctors who work in Houston's busiest maternity ward said they're seeing a 25 percent spike in pregnancies that are due in June.
"There’s about a 25 percent increase in the number of deliveries coming up in mid-June to mid-July," a physician at The Woman’s Hospital of Texas said.
One pregnant mother who's due June 10 put it this way: "You can only do so much when there’s no television, nothing open and there's nowhere to go."
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