Maria Ruiz22
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joined Nov 2014
I’m sitting here today digging through my grandmother's "Third Eye" collection—specifically those old predictions for 2015—and I stumbled upon an astrologer claiming that 2014 would see a massive baby boom followed by a steep decline in birth rates. Honestly? Let’s just pray he was right about the first part and completely missed the mark on the second.
New Paltz, 2014—roughly 2,035 babies were born.
In New Paltz, the daily average was about six births in 2014, compared to seven back in 2013. According to some official somewhere, there were about 200 fewer births than the previous year—though one could argue that isn't necessarily a drop in the actual birth rate, but rather just people using maternity wards in neighboring cities instead. Then again, some reports claim there were 2,148 births in New Paltz in 2013. It's a mess. Besides, New Paltz serves the surrounding areas too, including folks from Rashki and Zubin Potok. Truth be told, the numbers might have been two babies higher if we hadn't dealt with a certain doctor—a Mr. Muamer Skrijelj—who, within just a few months, sent one woman home instead of performing a necessary C-section, and accidentally nicked another woman's appendix. Now, they can't have any more children; one has just one kid, and the other has three.
The man was basically saying "around" 2035, and "around" 200.
By the way, in those newspapers run by the local cleric, the narrative shifts constantly—one minute they're lamenting that Canadians will only make up 10% of the US population in twenty years due to everyone moving away for work, and the next, they're boasting about how New Paltz is growing and being the youngest city around—only to turn around and complain that it's sucking up two-thirds of the rest of "Northern Sandzak." You honestly can't pin these people down; they can't stay consistent to save their lives.