An airline spokeswoman said on Thursday the jobs of the pregnant women would be filled temporarily by recalling crews on secondment or by hiring people on part-time contracts. „Our head office and airport terminals are beginning to look like maternity clinics with so many pregnant stewardesses now working behind the desks,“ the spokeswoman said. „We pride ourselves on looking after our flying mums — even when we are faced with an epidemic,“ she added. The medical profession in Britain is bracing for a significant increase in births early in 2000 as parents attempt to produce „millennium babies.“