Delivery Rooms Brace For Polar Vortex Baby Boom

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It's been nine months since the bitter cold winter ended.

Now, delivery rooms are bracing themselves for a Polar Vortex baby boom.

All 39 maternity rooms and the NICU are full this weekend at a Des Moines, Ia. hospital.

Doctors believe the baby bonanza is a result of the polar vortex last December and January.

In case you forgot, it was one of the snowiest and coldest winters on record.

August and September are usually the busiest months for maternity wards, draw your own conclusions why.

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