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According to Dr. Melissa Richards, an OBGYN at Olmsted County Medical Center, the hospital is expected to hit 1,000 births in 2020, which is something OMC hasn't done in more than five years.

That being said, she believes the "boom" won't be as drastic as some predict. "I wouldn't call it a boom, but maybe a bump," Dr. Richards told KTTC. "In 2019, we had 58 deliveries in December," Dr. Richards said. "This year, we are tracking to deliver 80 patients."

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Grace Vukasovic 4 years ago

The dads face 😂😂

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Lyman Stone, a research fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, pointed out that “events that cause a large increase in deaths tend to cause a large decrease in births nine months later.” Which is the complete opposite of the popular belief that a major natural disaster would inspire Americans sensing their own mortality to grow their families.

The researcher cited natural disasters such as hurricanes and famines, as well as previous pandemics to support the claim, saying that would-be parents may be traumatized by fear or concerned about how they would care for children during difficult and uncertain times. Still, such declines are often temporary.

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Catherine Hankinson 4 years ago

Twins?! Oh wow

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Stille20 4 years ago

LOL! I would think this one would be higher.

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Dawn Thomas-Cameron 4 years ago

Love the corona there.

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Christophe Beunens 4 years ago

You clearly did not follow Mr Presidents instructions with the Clorox

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alwaysMispelled 4 years ago

This one is my favorite!

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Grace Vukasovic 4 years ago

The kid looks so proud 😂😂

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Hayasahibaa 4 years ago

His Pajama is so good!

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Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago

And 13 years after birth, that kid will be a quaranTEEN.

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Capermom 4 years ago

Number 6..!?!?!?

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Gosiulka Bloem 4 years ago

Dear Lord 🤤

29points

Kaarei V 4 years ago

My grandma has 13 children so don’t be so alarmed 😂

18points

NoodleBear 4 years ago

My dad has 9 kids, I’m number 4 😂

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Hseed 4 years ago

They ran out of names. From now on he/she will be called number six

11points

Lea S. 4 years ago

Could mean 2nd baby...sixth member of the family? Or sixth kid - as long as they're happy no cause for alarm. Of course...as a single thirty-something who loves her life I have the same reaction when someone has more than one. TWO?! But you've already got ONE.

7points

Hunter 4 years ago

i have 5 siblings

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Grace Marraffa 4 years ago

I’m one of 7 kids

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Leslea Freeman 4 years ago

YIKES!!

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Marilyn Bojanowski 4 years ago

My friends and I both come from a family with two parents and six children.

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Mainecoonsandhuskies 4 years ago

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Monika Soffronow 4 years ago

Large families are a lot of fun, there's never a boring moment. BUT we have gone from one billion to seven billion in only a century and a half. With modern medicine (yes, do read vaccines!) almost all children survive that childhood that used to be so treacherous. Queen Anne saw only one child reach eleven years of age and she had seventeen pregnancies.

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Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago

Love in stock !Best one yet! Just how long have you been quarantined?

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Kay Funke 4 years ago

Luv the paper roll hearts

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Isabella Vega 4 years ago

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VANILLA 4 years ago

The sixth addition to the family I think. Including mom+ dad

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michelle neugebauer 4 years ago

I'm not sure of the meaning of the toilet rolls here?

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SBW71 4 years ago

Number 6? Well quarantine had nothing to do with it then!

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Fred Hochenedel 4 years ago

I want to know where they got all that TP?

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Miguel Gutiérrez 4 years ago

6? At that point, don't blame the quarantine...

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Claudia Lorenz 4 years ago

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My O My 4 years ago

Every number of children is wonderful

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Yvonne Blau 4 years ago

There are people out there that actually do want children.

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Francis 4 years ago

why is he cut off?

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Tanner Wright 4 years ago

Clearly...

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MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago

cat doesn't look impressed :D

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Molly Smith 4 years ago

That baby was clearly coming before the quarantine ...

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SimplyRatty 4 years ago

"promoted to big brother" lol

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Vanta Black 4 years ago

Me: "Why am I the only one who isn't going to be a parent after quarantine?" Voice in my head: "Because you're single, you hate kids, and 50% of your time in lockdown has been given over to Animal Crossing." Me: "I got all the fossils, so it was totally worth it."

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Garry Mild 4 years ago

Very repetitive. WHAT a bad time to conceive, having to go to hospital during a pandemic is risky for mother and baby.

42points

Rissie 4 years ago

Well. It's meant for friends and family. And these people aren't looking at aggregate websites like Bored Panda to read the notice :) And then it's just cute.

6points

SaraFromHell 4 years ago

Not to mention the future...this pandemic reduced greenhouse gases. These babies are going to reverse that. We are truly hopeless. I can't talk too much I have a grandbaby born 7 months ago. I have mixed emotions about the other 8 they want to follow..😔

0points

AnnieLaurie Burke 4 years ago

Looking at some of the pessimistic comments here, I am astounded that the human race has not gone extinct long ago. If today's little fragile snowflakes think this is even in the top 100 of dire circumstances the human race has gone through, they are beyond foolish and misinformed. And, if their ilk had been a larger percentage of humanity in the past, it is likely we would not have persisted.

0points

Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago

I so hope that none of these babies are going to be named Corona.

36points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

But after abcde I wouldn't be surprised at all.

25points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

Or Covid

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N G 4 years ago

Bud might be a better name

4points

Vanta Black 4 years ago

Uh... it's already happened... https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-twins-born-during-india-lockdown-named-corona-and-covid-11968479

2points

Human #1,232,867 4 years ago

Batman, Pangolin, Wuhan... Many possibilities

2points

Truth Monster 4 years ago

Rona wouldn't be too bad

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Gina Babe 4 years ago

Of course they will!

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Little Wonder 4 years ago

Sure are a lot of these that are basically "we had sex!!!". I don't get it. I mean I get the joke, but you can surely announce a pregnancy without highlighting how said pregnancy came about.

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Vanta Black 4 years ago

"Quaratine wasn't boring because mommy and daddy thought they had all the protection they needed, and didn't adhere to social distancing rules!" "We get it. Y'all f****d because you weren't at work."

14points

SaraFromHell 4 years ago

Yeah it's low class

0points

Signe Manat Hansen 4 years ago

You can but they chose not to. Don't be a Debbie Downer. People f**k.

0points

Coby Mattes 4 years ago

Later on, in the year 2033-34, they'll be quaran-teens

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Remy Ellis 3 years ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Kim 4 years ago

It could’ve been funny if people had written their own jokes. Most of these are exactly the same... Also, if you’re a couple living together it’s not really that amazing that you “happened to have sex”. Lol. 🙈

10points

Roadkill The Brave 4 years ago

Children of the Quarn.

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Rohan Moran 4 years ago

Makes me more concerned that none of these couples seem to comprehend that you don't need to practice social distance within you OWN HOME (unless one or more of you has symptoms). Plus think of the fact that your kids will no doubt see these pictures at some point and there will be no doubt in their mind what so ever that you didn't want them in the first place...

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Hanni 4 years ago

Exactly. I don't get the joke, but looks like these parents don't get what "social distancing" is.

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Savanna Winters 4 years ago

My mom works as a nicu/labor and delivery nurse, and she says the confirmed pregnancy tests are rolling in.

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SaraFromHell 4 years ago

So irresponsible

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Vicky Zar 4 years ago

You know, I'm glad we have regulations about baby names. Wuhan and Batman wouldn't be possible at all and I think they would not allow Covid and Corona either.

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Karen Leyba 4 years ago

All babies are beautiful! If parents got pregnant during COVID who are we to judge? It’s a happy occasion.

4points

devi L. 4 years ago

Hopefully ppl have income to take care of the new ones. This world is getting dark

3points

blugeagua 4 years ago

Edward, what the hell are you talking about? First, there is no such thing as "toxic femininity", and second, what the hell does that have to do with this post?

3points

Annabeth Chase 4 years ago

Aww! These were cute (although some were repetitive). Congrats to all of these people! Wishing happiness to all of them and their coming bundle of joy!

2points

Lost☆Star 4 years ago

These people seriously just be advertising that they smashed.

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Alina 4 years ago

Social distancing doesn't apply at house level, so this makes no sense even as a joke. It literally means that those people didn't respect social distancing when going out of the house. The only funny one is the Lego one, bonus no corona mention whatsoever.

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Azure Adams 4 years ago

These people are all dumbasses and idiots. And royally screwed. Pandemics don't just end, it takes up to 2 years and the young are the most vulnerable. So screwed

2points

A Random Panda 4 years ago

Well, would you rather abort? Kill that baby that you had been waiting for?

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Missy Barton 4 years ago

Well, that made me and my useless uterus sad.

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Podunkus 4 years ago

It will be interesting to see, once the data gets tallied, if the number of Coronials born represents a statistical anomaly — up or down — over what would normally have been expected for that time period.

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Shelli Aderman 4 years ago

“Coronials,” tho! 🤣

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Sarah Anderson 4 years ago

I love it. My baby is due in December too! 😊

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Emily Selway 4 years ago

I got pregnant just before Coronavirus became a thing. For our announcement I photoshopped an ultrasound of the baby to have a mask on and Clorox wipes in his hands lol

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Éva Nemes 4 years ago

Not funny... :( Peoples DIES because of corona... THIS would like (and prevention) the first, not the idi.t jokes.

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Kimberley McMillan 4 years ago

Yawn. Baby announcements are stupid.

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A Random Panda 4 years ago

You gotta say though, having your dad and mom showing up at a hospital cause you told them you broke your spleen or something only for them to find out that you had a BABY- kinda awkward.

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Laura Thomas 4 years ago

Sorry but these posts were not up to your usual high standards. Extremely repetitive. It looks like the same idea over & over again with different names. Almost like an ad for someone's business. Even the typeset is the same from post to post????

1point

Miss Cris 4 years ago

All of them are the same. How sad and boring.

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Ms Phit 4 years ago

It strangely makes sense, the urge to procreate after tragedy.... (though I don't think I'd want to be pregnant with the Threat of Covid in the air) My son was a 9/11 baby... the trauma of the event shook us out of the complacent "one day" starting our family. Took a little while to get the bunni in the oven but he's now 18 years old. Now that I think about it, much of the class of 2020 was 9/11 babies!

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Karolina Bajbuz 4 years ago

Most of these look like generic ads of clothes printing companies, literally from "haha funny t-shirts" product collection.

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Maria 3 years ago

Some of you guys have no humor. It's just meant to be a funny or cute way of announcing an upcoming edition to their families. It's not for all of us here anyway.

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SaraFromHell 4 years ago

Oh good! We were just turning this around! Seriously tho...we gotta teach this generation to refuse plastics and fossil fuel whenever possible and we'll all be just fine. I'm a new grandma..can't see her much because of the virus but they're great and so are we. Congratulations new parents! And good luck! Raise em right. Teach them to stand up for what they believe in.

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Larysa Bondar 4 years ago

An unplanned and possibly unwanted baby. What can be more beautiful xD

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kajoo 4 years ago

Larysa Bondar Good response!

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Bunzilla 4 years ago

four basic formats of quarantine pregnancy announcement: Mom and Dad thought they had all the protection they needed. . . or, mom and dad didn't say six feet apart! or "well played, quarantine" or a picture of the ultrasound with some clever little saying on a bulletin board behind it

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Richard McCoy 4 years ago

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Jo Choto 4 years ago

I remember the days where you just told your immediate family you were having a baby and that was it.

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Maisieb 4 years ago

My friends child is call corina

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Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago

Babies, pee sticks and banjo music. Ain't it perty? Not directed at the above ones just the whole goofy idea , virus, distance, name brand beer, acting liike babies are an accident when the hospitals are full of people praying for their loved ones. Enough.

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Gilda 4 years ago

High birth rates always happen during times of stress baby boomers are usually ww2 babies my favorite story though is the baby boom in a town in Texas in the 30s that had a spike in births because of a 3 am train that woke everyone up at the same time

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Gina Babe 4 years ago

Ctrl c, Ctrl v

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devi L. 4 years ago

Lots of December and January babies

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Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago

These are all cute and sweet, though they did get a tad repetitive on the not practicing social distancing theme.

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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Always nice for their child to be able to confirm they weren't planned for.

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Just JoLynn 4 years ago

If they grow up loved and cared for what does it matter if they were planned or not?

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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago

Being proud of forcing a life into this world during a deadly pandemic, climate change, anti-racism protests and riots, the gap between rich and poor growing wider and wider, the USA descending into madness, etc. Unbelievable.

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago

So no more babies? Climate change isn't going away...so humans should stop reproducing and kill ourselves off? There is also love and happiness in this world, you just have to make sure to show your kids how to love others and how to take care of each other and this earth. I would never say "well the world is going to hell! No more humans!!" We should ALL take care of EACH OTHER.

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Luisa Vasconcelos 4 years ago

Not making babies is not The solution tô any of this problems you said. Maybe is the solution. One or many of this babies will maybe make the world a much better place for all the Human kind. At least they are doing already to their family and giving us a little smile with this announcements.

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Inga Viviane 4 years ago

Not everyone lives in the US. And dont get kids if you dont wanna, but why s**t on the joy of others?

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Nia Loves Art 4 years ago (edited)

More likely just boredom sex because there isn’t anything better to do, considering that they all seem to have a sense of humor and feel positive about the situation. Couples that hate each other and then find out they are expecting generally have other plans than cutesy announcements.

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Nia Loves Art 4 years ago

If you are 30, didn’t use protection until recently, and have never been pregnant, you probably just aren’t very fertile.

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Garry Mild 4 years ago

Very repetitive. WHAT a bad time to conceive, having to go to hospital during a pandemic is risky for mother and baby.

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Rissie 4 years ago

Well. It's meant for friends and family. And these people aren't looking at aggregate websites like Bored Panda to read the notice :) And then it's just cute.

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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago

I so hope that none of these babies are going to be named Corona.

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Vicky Zar 4 years ago

But after abcde I wouldn't be surprised at all.

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Vicky Zar 4 years ago

Or Covid

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N G 4 years ago

Bud might be a better name

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Vanta Black 4 years ago

Uh... it's already happened... https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-twins-born-during-india-lockdown-named-corona-and-covid-11968479

2points

Human #1,232,867 4 years ago

Batman, Pangolin, Wuhan... Many possibilities

2points

Truth Monster 4 years ago

Rona wouldn't be too bad

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Gina Babe 4 years ago

Of course they will!

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Little Wonder 4 years ago

Sure are a lot of these that are basically "we had sex!!!". I don't get it. I mean I get the joke, but you can surely announce a pregnancy without highlighting how said pregnancy came about.

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Vanta Black 4 years ago

"Quaratine wasn't boring because mommy and daddy thought they had all the protection they needed, and didn't adhere to social distancing rules!" "We get it. Y'all f****d because you weren't at work."

14points

SaraFromHell 4 years ago

Yeah it's low class

0points

Signe Manat Hansen 4 years ago

You can but they chose not to. Don't be a Debbie Downer. People f**k.

0points

Coby Mattes 4 years ago

Later on, in the year 2033-34, they'll be quaran-teens

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Remy Ellis 3 years ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Kim 4 years ago

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Roadkill The Brave 4 years ago

Children of the Quarn.

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Rohan Moran 4 years ago

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Hanni 4 years ago

Exactly. I don't get the joke, but looks like these parents don't get what "social distancing" is.

1point

Savanna Winters 4 years ago

My mom works as a nicu/labor and delivery nurse, and she says the confirmed pregnancy tests are rolling in.

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SaraFromHell 4 years ago

So irresponsible

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Vicky Zar 4 years ago

You know, I'm glad we have regulations about baby names. Wuhan and Batman wouldn't be possible at all and I think they would not allow Covid and Corona either.

4points

Karen Leyba 4 years ago

All babies are beautiful! If parents got pregnant during COVID who are we to judge? It’s a happy occasion.

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devi L. 4 years ago

Hopefully ppl have income to take care of the new ones. This world is getting dark

3points

blugeagua 4 years ago

Edward, what the hell are you talking about? First, there is no such thing as "toxic femininity", and second, what the hell does that have to do with this post?

3points

Annabeth Chase 4 years ago

Aww! These were cute (although some were repetitive). Congrats to all of these people! Wishing happiness to all of them and their coming bundle of joy!

2points

Lost☆Star 4 years ago

These people seriously just be advertising that they smashed.

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Alina 4 years ago

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Azure Adams 4 years ago

These people are all dumbasses and idiots. And royally screwed. Pandemics don't just end, it takes up to 2 years and the young are the most vulnerable. So screwed

2points

A Random Panda 4 years ago

Well, would you rather abort? Kill that baby that you had been waiting for?

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Missy Barton 4 years ago

Well, that made me and my useless uterus sad.

2points

Podunkus 4 years ago

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Shelli Aderman 4 years ago

“Coronials,” tho! 🤣

1point

Sarah Anderson 4 years ago

I love it. My baby is due in December too! 😊

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Emily Selway 4 years ago

I got pregnant just before Coronavirus became a thing. For our announcement I photoshopped an ultrasound of the baby to have a mask on and Clorox wipes in his hands lol

2points

Éva Nemes 4 years ago

Not funny... :( Peoples DIES because of corona... THIS would like (and prevention) the first, not the idi.t jokes.

1point

Kimberley McMillan 4 years ago

Yawn. Baby announcements are stupid.

1point

A Random Panda 4 years ago

You gotta say though, having your dad and mom showing up at a hospital cause you told them you broke your spleen or something only for them to find out that you had a BABY- kinda awkward.

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Laura Thomas 4 years ago

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Miss Cris 4 years ago

All of them are the same. How sad and boring.

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Ms Phit 4 years ago

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Karolina Bajbuz 4 years ago

Most of these look like generic ads of clothes printing companies, literally from "haha funny t-shirts" product collection.

1point

Maria 3 years ago

Some of you guys have no humor. It's just meant to be a funny or cute way of announcing an upcoming edition to their families. It's not for all of us here anyway.

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SaraFromHell 4 years ago

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Larysa Bondar 4 years ago

An unplanned and possibly unwanted baby. What can be more beautiful xD

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kajoo 4 years ago

Larysa Bondar Good response!

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Bunzilla 4 years ago

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Richard McCoy 4 years ago

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Jo Choto 4 years ago

I remember the days where you just told your immediate family you were having a baby and that was it.

0points

Maisieb 4 years ago

My friends child is call corina

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Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago

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Gilda 4 years ago

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Gina Babe 4 years ago

Ctrl c, Ctrl v

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devi L. 4 years ago

Lots of December and January babies

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Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago

These are all cute and sweet, though they did get a tad repetitive on the not practicing social distancing theme.

0points

Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Always nice for their child to be able to confirm they weren't planned for.

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Just JoLynn 4 years ago

If they grow up loved and cared for what does it matter if they were planned or not?

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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago

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Luisa Vasconcelos 4 years ago

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Inga Viviane 4 years ago

Not everyone lives in the US. And dont get kids if you dont wanna, but why s**t on the joy of others?

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Tea 4 years ago

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Jaded Queen 4 years ago

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Tiffany Marie 4 years ago

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Nia Loves Art 4 years ago

If you are 30, didn’t use protection until recently, and have never been pregnant, you probably just aren’t very fertile.

7points