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The curious baby boom in Island

According to doctor Porvaldsson it was caused by the successes of the National Football Team

The curious baby boom in Island According to doctor Porvaldsson it was caused by the successes of the National Football Team

Fun fact from Northern Europe! A doctor in Iceland has noted a record amount of babies born in his hospital in March, exactly nine months on from the day their national team beat England 2-1 in Nice at Euro 2016.

Asgeir Petur Porvaldsson, the doctor from Reykjavik's Landspitali University Hospital who spotted the correlation, tweeted (with accompanying winky face):

“Set a record for the number of epidurals in the maternity unit this weekend – nine months after the 2-1 win over England” 

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