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What were you doing nine months ago? If you're Icelandic, then we think we've got a good idea.

Monday marked exactly nine months ago to the day since Iceland's football team shocked England at Euro 2016, with their 2-1 victory in Nice serving as one of the Three Lions' most embarrassing results of recent times and leading to the resignation of Roy Hodgson .

England were abject in the last-16 clash, but it was a result which led to wild celebrations in Iceland - and we think we now know just how wild they were.

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Because a resident doctor at one of the country's leading hospitals has claimed that a record number of epidurals were administered to pregnant women over the weekend, with the celebrations nine months ago clearly playing their part.

Icelandic magazine Visir report that the levels of pain relief provided for pregnant women at Landspitali Hospital in Reykjavik were higher than ever before, with Asgeir Petur Porvaldsson - a resident at the hopital's department of anesthesiology - tweeting:

(Image: Twitter / @asgeirpetur)

He seems as though he was a busy boy then, as apparently were quite a few Icelandic men nine months ago.

We wish the mothers and their new arrivals Roy, Wayne, Joe etc etc well.