Two Day Power Outage = Baby Boom In Dutch Community

A small Dutch community has recorded a 44 percent rise in baby births nine months after a power cut plunged its 23,000 residents into darkness for two days.
In December last year, the blades of an Apache helicopter accidentally severed the high voltage cables providing electricity to the nine villages that make up the municipality of [...]

Military Bases See Baby Boom

Different events throughout the year will trigger an increase in birth rates.

A couple of years a go when I was on bedrest in the hospital I was in awe of the number of pregnant moms delivering babies at our hospital. For four nights in a row there were up to 15 deliveries each evening. [...]

France’s Baby Boom

France says it has now probably overtaken Ireland as Europe’s most fertile country, with French women having an average of two children each.

Irish women have 1.9 children each, with the European average at 1.5.

The French birth rate has been growing steadily and has reached its highest level for 25 years.

Three-quarters of France’s population growth comes [...]