Could There Be An Obama Baby Boom?

It’s too soon to know for sure, but experts aren’t ruling out the possibility of an up-tick in births nine months from now. That’s according to Newsweek magazine. They say that often, following an important national event, you’ll see an increase in the birthrate – sometimes it’s after a scary event, like a terrorist attack. Or something positive, like the end of World War 2.

Dr. Manny Alvarez is the chief of reproductive science at Hackensack University Medical Center and he says – right now the mood of the country is optimistic and that’s always related to birthrates. He says he’s gearing up for a healthy increase in babies. Sociologist Pepper Schwartz says euphoria is a serious aphrodisiac and that’s exactly what a lot of younger voters felt after the election. Voters under 30 years old went for Obama by a margin of 2 to 1. In fact, the likelihood of a baby boom already has a listing in the online Urban Dictionary. They’re calling children conceived on or shortly after election night: Obama babies.

So what would classify as an Obama baby boom? Americans would have had to have made more than 390,000 babies in the month of November. We won’t know for sure until next August – 9 months after the election. Know this. Barrack Obama was born almost nine months to the day after John F. Kennedy was elected to the White House. Coincidence or baby boom? Only time will tell.