A Royal baby boom? Nine months after World Series, KC fans welcome little ... - Wichita Eagle
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. The Stocks, who live in Peculiar, Mo. , and are both 29, weren’t exactly trying to expand their family of three when Erica became pregnant right around game one. he had just bought a new Dodge Ram pickup truck. Heidi and Eric Pemberton of Louisburg 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 in Kansas City, Mo. , 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... 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. But in July, Shawnee Mission Birth Center in Kansas, which delivered more babies last year than any other hospital in the Kansas City, Mo. , 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 and delivery manager at the hospital. Source: www.kansas.com
