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Thank you for sharing your anecdote.

However, the opposite happened. Likely that you are in the age where a lot of people get pregnant so this looked like a baby boom. In reality, birth went down in the western world.

A study in Canada: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/45-28-0001/2021001/artic...

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I think a “harvesting effect” happened. A large chunk of people who were already thinking of having a kid decided to move up their plans to coincide with lock down. This results in a blip in birth statistics for the given month, but not for the overall year.

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