Economic Crisis Baby Boom??

I'm sure a lot of you know that Sugar-baby was a LONG time in coming. Man, something like six years. And now that I've got that pregnant lady shape, of course I'm starting to notice all kinds of other lopsided ladies walking the streets of Trieste ("It's watermelon season!" said our friend, Dino, when he saw my big ole belly) and I'm starting to wonder if this is some kind of Baby Boom or maybe I'm just seeing the world through baby-tinted glasses?? 

But I'm thinking, Hmm of all the times for a baby... I was definitely economically better off a couple of years ago, so was Sweetie (we both had regular salaries, now I've got my own little translation/communications business and he is perpetually almost in-between jobs, so money is trickling in, but not at regular intervals). That being said, we have a pretty simple (some would call it FRUGAL) lifestyle, as in, we're not missing anything (we still go out for a pizza once in a while, and we are going on vacation this year), but we're not doing a lot of excessive spending either (an apartment down on the Dalmation coast of Croatia, 30 euros a night, woo hoo!).  I mean, we're totally happy and feel like this event is coming at just the right time, but a short time ago I would have thought that not being totally economically secure would be a bad time to have a kid... 

And Trieste is in bad shape right now. Lots of people are worse off than than they were a couple of years ago, yet it's watermelon season all the same. (Just recently someone said to me "Negative birth rate in Italy? Not THIS year!!"). They say that natural disasters make baby booms to preserve the human race, and then there was WWII, remember how many babies came out of that one??  

So what's the deal? Is the economic situation giving people more time to get down or is it some kind of biological pull to save civilization?

Anyway, who cares, more watermelons now mean more little amici for Sugar to play with later, and that's what counts.