HOUSTON -- It's been nearly nine months since Hurricane Ike, and some southeast Texas hospitals are preparing for a baby boom, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.

"We weathered the storm and ended up with two little babies," parents Jennifer and Tim said.

Their twins, Jocelyn and Jaycee, are two living, breathing mementos of the storm of the century. Before Ike hit, the couple planned to conceive, but needed a little help.

"The Saturday of Hurricane Ike, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, we had a fertility procedure planned and got the phone call that we had to go to plan B, which was on our own," they said.

Mother Nature stepped in when science could not.

"I like to say it was a miracle," the couple said. "Two miracles. It ended up working out in our favor."

Obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Rakhi Dimino said the preparations for the small spike in population are under way.

"I know that Women's Hospital has been really preparing for that," she said. "Our new half of the hospital is open so we have more beds. They are hoping to ramp up the staff a little bit to accommodate what we think is going to be a little bit of a baby boom."

Dimino cares for many Ike mothers, and is one herself.

"I had actually joked during the hurricane when I went to the grocery store and I was looking for bread and stuff like that to fill our grocery cart with," she said. "I'm watching other people with all their wine bottles and I told my husband, 'I should have gotten condoms for all of their carts and in the end, I was saying maybe we should have done that!"

So what's behind the 25 percent spike in babies conceived during the storm? Experts said it's likely the loss of modern conveniences.

"We had no TV, no computer, no Internet," said Dr. Jenifer Bratter, assistant professor of sociology at Rice University. "It seemed very natural that people had more time together. We saw somewhat of an uptick in births after 9-11. We saw one after the Oklahoma City bombing, the blackouts in New York, also corresponded with an uptick in births, so this is actually not entirely uncommon."

Is the hurricane's name inspiring children's names?

"Everyone who hears you got pregnant during Ike wants to know if it's going to be an Ike baby or an Ikea," Dimino said.

"For about three seconds, then we said no, not going to work," Jennifer and Tim said. "Even if they were boys, we were not going to go that route. (laughs)"

Dimino's baby and Jennifer and Tim's twins actually beat the true Ike birth rush since they were born about a month early. Full-term babies will begin to fill the hospitals in the weeks to come.