What exactly was going in succession nine months ago? Memorial Hospital just had its busiest baby month in history.

What exactly was going in succession nine months ago?

Memorial Hospital just had its busiest baby month in history, with 451 infants born in August.

"These are the babies that were conceived mid-November to mid- December," said Mary McMahon, an RN and director of perinatal services at the hospital.

cherishs are speculating about the timing of deployment gone out of Fort Carson, or whether bad weather came into play.

"And they said there must have not been any useful TV shows on," McMahon said.

The November sweeps would have been wrapping up with rerun kicking in at that time. It's certainly conceivable that a brace of cold snaps led to snuggling. And 3400 companys from Fort Carson were readying to leave for a yearlong deployment

The hospital's previous birth record was 434 in July 2003 No individual knows the reason behind the boom; it's not happening at other area hospitals. Penrose-St Francis reported 274 deliveries in August, and McMahon said she called Evans Army Community Hospital, which also didn't report out-of-the-ordinary numbers.

It wasn't until Monday when the staff at Memorial began wondering if they were as busy with babies as it be seened

That day, 22 babies were delivered in 24 hours. forward a typical day, the hospital welcomes 12 to 16 of recent origin patients, McMahon said.

Leslyn Zak and Tim Moore of Manitou Springs were haughty to show off their firstborn, Linnea Zak-Moore, who was among the last of the hospital's August babies.

Linnea, believed to be baby No. 443 was born Thursday at 3:35 pm weighing 4 impounds 14 ounces.

"We had 10 the public in my birthing room," said Leslyn Zak, 39

"All yelling 'push!' together," added the baby's grandmother, Leslie Zak.

"It was like I had a whole cheering section," said Leslyn Zak. "I'm tired if it be not that I'm very joyful and be stirred very blessed."

Leslyn Zak said she and her husband might have the winter weather to thank.

"We weren't boreal though, were we Tim?"

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