Royal baby boom? Nine months after World Series, fans welcome little souvenirs - Kansas City Star
Royals fans Erica and David Stock took home three souvenirs from the 2014 World Series: tickets, a program and, nine months later, their baby boy, Beckett Kauffman Stock. he had just bought a new Dodge Ram pickup truck. , say their 3-week-old daughter is also a bit of World Series memorabilia. Eric and Heidi, a 32-year-old nurse at Children’s Mercy Hospital, wanted a little sister for sons Kaden, 13, and Brody, 6. They conceived right off the bat and decided to name her Everly Royal, a nod to the team’s “Forever Royal” slogan. It’s too soon to tell whether the excitement surrounding the Royals’ historic postseason run resulted in a local baby boom. Kansas and Missouri birth numbers for July 2015 — the month most 2014 World Series babies were born — won’t be final until next year. North Kansas City Hospital and St. Luke’s hospitals haven’t seen an increase in births. But in July, Shawnee Mission Birth Center, which delivered more babies last year than any other hospital in the metro area, logged 473 births, breaking the old record of 456 births in a single month. “We were wondering if we were seeing a little bit of a boom from all the Royals babies,” says Eva Shay, a labor. Source: www.kansascity.com
