QUOTE (PerfectDNA @ Feb 27 2007, 03:09 PM)

Aries, and the pig
Born right after easter, 10:31 am
nice sunny out (rare too for northern alberta)
also there were i think 10-15 ( i think 13, but dont want to say that for im not sure, and thats a mystic #) other babies all born same day (then there was 1 hospital room, and a total population of like 600, wasnt till like 10 years later that that many kids born same day)
and....they were all boys...i was 1st.
Sorry to come in on this topic so late. Wow...(at least) ten births in such a small town on the same day is very unusual, but could be (indirectly

) due to a power blackout near the end of the previous summer (which happened in NYC some years ago and caused a "bump" in the "baby graph" nine months or so later). But what I find really amazing here is that all the babies were boys. That goes against the odds and is worth pondering... Sure it's a small statistical sample but still very strange...
And for anyone who doubts PerfectDNA's statement that Canada has a lower birth rate than the US, I'd heard this before, so I googled "birth rates" for Canada and the USA to get the latest figures. The provisional figures for Canada for 2006 were 10.78 births per 1000 people...USA had a provisional rate of 14.14 births per 1000... That works out at around a 30-odd percent difference. And apparently this has been the long-term trend.