Recession Babies???

The busy time for most L&D units is summer time..."prime time"...those crisp cool autumn, and long, cold winter nights come to fruition, and we are slammed for the months of June through August...and this year it's been worse than most.

This year though, we kept getting slammed right on through September into October. Things seem to have settled down a bit, but we are still doing more deliveries than we did a year ago...which prompted a discussion between the nurses and residents last night...

Are these Recession Babies?

The timing seems about right...if indeed the recession that we are now told is resolving, peaked in late 2008 to early 2009.

Think about it. You've been laid off...or your partner has been laid off. No money to go out, you can't pound the pavement every minute of every weekday, so what's a person to do...

Have Sex!!!!! Why not? You're not exhausted from a busy work week, but you are stressed out from not being employed; or maybe you are stressed from the fear of losing your job.

I don't know about y'all, but I think sex is a pretty good stress reliever. Of course, I, in my advancing years, am not as likely to conceive as others...Thank God!

So, I put this question out to all of my other L&D nurse blogger friends out there...

Have you seen an increase in births that don't seem attributable to the usual summertime surge in deliveries?

Inquiring minds want to know...