A baby boom?

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This is one prediction i just don't get. We're all staying in, the only person any of us is likely to be having sex with is a live in partner (right?), so am i really naive in thinking we're all on the same contraceptives/family planning as usual during lockdown? Surely more sex doesn't equal more babies in this day and age? And for those ttc they'd be ttc anyway? I just can't see where all these extra unplanned babies are coming from.

But this is coming from someone with fertility issues (thankfully have 2 dc though, second was ivf) so maybe my perception is skewed and there are couples out there who throw caution to the wind when it comes to family planning as a matter of course?

Someone explain it to me?

Any baby boom will be comprised entirely of first born children 😂

But in all seriousness, lack of access to emergency contraception, abortions and expiry of existing methods. Deluded fools hoping a baby will fix issues that have become apparent in their relationships. Downtrodden women submitting to their abusers requests to keep the peace. Lots of reasons

How awful I didn't even consider domestic abuse here. Or the fixit baby.

I guess in my naivete I figured unplanned pregnancies weren't that common in established relationships, i.e. only a tiny chance of contraceptive failure.

This is very plausible, but I really actually hope we are a decrease in birth rates whilst this is going on. Anyone trying for a baby or taking their chances are being stupid right now.
I lost a baby a couple of years back and had a team of doctors and nurses working on me to stop me from bleeding to death when I was falling unconscious. I was then rushed in for surgery-can you imagine with so much demand on our hospitals how your chances of survival are likely greatly reduced?

I don’t know how true it is but a midwife once told me that September/October is always the peak birth time, a combination of a) Christmas party drunken mistakes, b) more sex at actual Christmas being at home together (often also alcohol related) and c) heart to heart discussions over Christmas leading to couples deciding to start trying for a baby in the new year. All of these could be potentially going on right now I guess.

Depending on how long the lockdown goes on, they’ll be a first wave of actual lockdown babies (the drunken mistake babies) followed by all the sensible people putting off TTC during the lockdown causing a second wave 9 months after “normality” resumes.

I think it may happen if people can't access contraception easily as a pp said.

I’ve run out of the pill and am struggling to get my next prescription from the dr. We’ve got a couple of condoms but if we use those there will be no sex!! Two kids is enough for us.

‘Depending on how long the lockdown goes on, they’ll be a first wave of actual lockdown babies (the drunken mistake babies) followed by all the sensible people putting off TTC during the lockdown causing a second wave 9 months after “normality” resumes. on how long the lockdown goes on, they’ll be a first wave of actual lockdown babies (the drunken mistake babies) followed by all the sensible people putting off TTC during the lockdown causing a second wave 9 months after “normality” resumes.’

Finally someone on the same wavelength as me.
I also do not think a baby boom will come in 9 months. It will come next year, once normality has resumed and couples can actively ttc again.