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Iceland witnesses record-breaking baby boom nine months on from humiliating England at Euro 2016

The small island nation obviously celebrated their historic knockout victory in style

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They were heady, historic days in the sporting history of Iceland.

A small Nordic nation of 300,000 people toppling World Cup winners and footballing lawmakers England in a major tournament doesn’t happen every week. Not yet, at least.

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And it would appear that those on the litter of volcanic islands scattered in the North Atlantic Ocean ensured they celebrated that famous win.

For nine months on from that 2-1 victory on the French riviera, local newspaper Visir reports a record-breaking amount of births in Iceland.

Indeed, the weekend of March 25-26 saw the highest-ever amount of epidurals administered to patients in Icelandic hospitals – for those unfamiliar, that is a painkilling injection into the spinal cord, common during childbirth.

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How many of those newborns will be named after the Euro 2016 heroes is, as yet, unknown.

 

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