We all rejoiced over it. Besides these, there is also maternity care coming (to the Sri Lankan Buddhists ) via religious considerations. In the category of Buddhist parittas, we have the Angulimala ...
The cannibal king, says the Jataka, was an earlier birth of Angulimala, the dreaded bandit who cut off a finger from each person he murdered and wore them around his neck in a gristly garland.