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trouble finding room for all
of the expectant mioms.

- It just so happens Wed-
nesday marked the nine-
month anniversary of the
massive May 18, 1980,
eruption of Mount St.
Helen's.

When the mountain blew
its top that sunny morning, it
covered. parts of three states
with volcanic ash, so much
so, in some places, people
virtually were “ash-bound”
for days, unable to get out of
their homes.

Now people are starting to

talk about the eruption
again, but for a different
reason.
““]> remember we were
commenting to cach other
after the ash fell we would
have to keep track of the
period nine months later,”
said Joe Morris, ad-
ministrator of Kootenai
Memorial Hospital in Coeur
@’ Alene, Idaho.

“At the current rate, we'll
be up to 107 babies — out
biggest month ever — and it
would be a February with
only 28 days,” said Morris.

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maternity ward began
noticing an increasing
number of births last week,
and it became apparent
something was up when 19
babies were delivered the
same day.

Morris said the hospital's
nursery unit can only ac-
commodate 12 new moms
and babies, so nurses began
chasing all dver the hospital
looking for rooms for the
other seven.

“We had 4 inches of ash,
so we were forced to stay
inside,” said Cheryl Sicveke,
a Tekoa, Wash., mother who
came to Cocur d'Alene to
have her baby.

“We weren't planning on
getting pregnant; it just
happened that way,” she
said, but adding, “We're
happy about it.”

Morris said so far this
month, there have been 65

ago.

“We have been busy in the
labor and delivery depart-
ments, for whatever you can
attribute that to,” Heafey
said with a chuckic.

At Samaritan Hospital in
Moses Lake, Wash., which
was among the hardest hit
areas by the volcanic ash, an
administrator said there
hadn't been any deliveries
for a few days.

“We stem to have quite a
few pre-natal cases,” she
added. “It's just that none of
them have given birth yet.”

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