The Post-Hurricane Sandy Baby Boom Is Really Happening

Turns out, the after-effects of Hurricane Sandy aren't all terrible — there's going to be a baby boom this summer!

Hospitals and clinics in the areas impacted by Sandy are seeing an increase in women with due dates in late July and early August, according to The New York Post. In some cases, it's even as high as a 30 percent spike.

“We started noticing a couple of weeks ago that we were getting really busy with phone calls and lab results and charts. We were like, what is going on here?" Linda Roberts, a nurse manager at an OB/GYN office in Westchester, told The Post.

“And then all of a sudden, it dawned on me! This is right about the time when people would be coming in because they got pregnant during Hurricane Sandy."

Though the actual evidence for "catastrophe babies" are mixed, natural disasters and power outages have been tied to baby booms since New York's 1965 blackout lead to a spike in birth rates nine months later. The folksy narrative suggests that with no heat, electricity or power, what else are people going to do?

Another less-romantic explanation for the uptick, however, could be that people were stranded because of the storm and unable to access their birth control.

But whatever the reason, the so-called Sandy Babies are definitely on their way.