I was thinking about the randomness – or otherwise – of birthdays & times of birth, when I had a brilliant idea.
The current baby boom has put maternity units under pressure. One low cost but simple & effective solution would be to persuade women not to get pregnant just at Christmas but to spread their due dates throughout the year.
At a stroke the unmanageable peak in the number of births in September would be spread in a way which could be efficiently managed by a smaller number of midwifes, or at least could end the scandal of too many women not receiving care of the standard they nowadays expect.
