RODE IT OUT: Tara and Brian Salzman had son Brody (above) this week, after lots of alone time during the Sandy blackout in their LI home (inset). (
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Hurricane Sandy babies are taking New York by storm!
A Long Island mom gave birth to a baby boy conceived during the power outage following the superstorm — kicking off the city’s hurricane baby boom.
Brody Dylan Salzman was welcomed to the world Wednesday at 6:36 p.m. — warming the heart of his mother, Tara Salzman, who’s elated that something good came out of such a terrible situation.
“We feel so blessed to have Brody in our life. He completed our family!” said Salzman, 35, who recently moved from Plainview to Dix Hills with her husband, Brian.
She said she’s grateful the October 2012 storm — which landed her other three kids temporarily at their grandparents’ house — afforded the couple some much-needed quality time.
“Thank God for Hurricane Sandy . . . I [got] alone time with my husband!” she said.
“We had just started trying [to get pregnant] that month, but with my husband’s work schedule and the kids, you don’t get much time at all.”
Plus, there wasn’t much else to do. “It was insane. The stores weren’t open — it was like the ‘Twilight Zone,’ ” Salzman said of the days following the storm.
The Salzmans weren’t the only couple who got it on once the lights went off. Other expectant mothers who conceived during the storm are due any day now.
“We’re just waiting patiently — we’re excited and exhausted,” said Jennifer Chiorello, whose husband is a New Brunswick, NJ cop. She, too, got pregnant during the storm and is due Aug. 3.
She said the waiting room at her gynecologist’s office is chock full of hurricane moms — ready to burst at any moment.
Hospitals in the New York area have even begun preparing for the baby boom, noting deliveries have spiked 30 percent compared with this time last year, according to Fox 5 News.
Baby Brody weighed in at a healthy 6 pounds, 13 ounces at Long Island Jewish Hospital.
Salzman said she knew early in the pregnancy the baby would be a boy, so the name Sandy was never at the top of the list.
Relatives said the birth is a gift after all the storm suffering.
“It was misery. No refrigeration, no hot water, no lights. But we’re just so happy to have him,” said grandpa Phil Salzman.