Are pregnancy rates up or down?

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Just wondered what effect the pandemic has had. Do they keep records of pregnancy or just live births. Will we have to wait to February to see if it’s had an effect?
Just wondered, what with fewer casual encounters etc.

Up in this house due to covid boredom! Due in 2 weeks

Who knows?

down?

Up for me. It's twice during this pandemic (after not happening naturally before in 4 years of trying)

My baby was conceived in Feb, so not a lockdown baby but talking to midwives they are expecting to be very busy with births in next few months. Reminds me of my small primary school, average of 4-5 children in each school year, accept for one which had 9 children, 4 born in same month. Turns out there was big snowstorm that cut the village off for week or two 9months before they were born......

I conceived the first weekend of lockdown! (Planned baby, life is too short ...) I now have 2 week old ds snoring on me as I express milk.

Rate of stillbirths has increased this year.

It's most likely to fall, due to economic uncertainty.

Due in 2 weeks here! Have had Covid during the pregnancy so it has all been a bit mad! Baby thankfully seems unaffected.

Studies are showing that they are falling over the pandemic due to several reasons

• Less certainty about financial futures
• people holding off as not wanting to go to hospitals
• being stuck home with your partner 24/7 is not conducive to romance
• Looking after child no 1 all day with no kids group or schools open is not conducive to wanting no 2
• No pubs etc open or so many one night hookups equals less ooopsie babies.

Up, according to the nurse at my HP's surgery I spoke to last week.

GP not HP !

@EagleFlight

Rate of stillbirths has increased this year.

Where have you seen that? @eagleflight

The last data I saw showed no change in stillbirth rate.

I was just wondering how the pandemic effects these things. Interesting.

My midwife friend says they’re sky high from the first lockdown (when most people thought it would be long over by now) so they’re bracing to be hugely busy Jan-March (massively unhelpful given hospitals being so overwhelmed).

It seems somewhere over the summer the inclination to procreate dwindled. They’re not currently expecting high birth rates April onwards but that could change. I wonder whether the vaccine being announced will have made a difference.

The thing that irritates me is people who chose to get pregnant during first lockdown now complaining about not being allowed DP in/circumstances of giving birth under these conditions.
Sorry but you made a conscious choice to role that dice, you were not guaranteed normality! I felt sorry for everyone giving birth last year who had no idea this is what they’d get but that’s no the case anymore. I’m due in June and whatever the circumstances then I’ll have to make the best as that’s what I signed up to!

I had my son in Oct (got pregnant just before the pandemic) and as we were discharged got a stern talking to by the midwife to sort contraception ASAP as we still didn’t know the affects of COVID in babies so to avoid pregnancy as much as possible.

@Missingyoupapum - Your midwife sounds like a complete twat who completely overstepped the mark. If it isn’t official advice then she should keep her trap shut and her opinions to herself,

Adults with capacity don’t need “a stern talking to” about contraception from anyone, and I would have put in a complaint about her.

Up if my work is anything to go by 4 on maternity as of jan/Feb. Babies all due March and unplanned to mothers 38+ who thought they were done! Boredom or something in the water😂

I just had my 34 week appointment with my midwife and asked her what her books looked like/if she was seeing evidence of a boom (I’m nosy!)

She said ladies in the third trimester doesn’t appear to be up from previous years - so those would be ones who fell pregnant in the first lockdown - but that they are having to get locums in to help with the amount of booking in appointments they have had over the past 3 months, even when they are being done over the phone. I would’ve thought if there was a boom it would have been in the opposite way!

@Thegirlhasnoname

I just had my 34 week appointment with my midwife and asked her what her books looked like/if she was seeing evidence of a boom (I’m nosy!)

She said ladies in the third trimester doesn’t appear to be up from previous years - so those would be ones who fell pregnant in the first lockdown - but that they are having to get locums in to help with the amount of booking in appointments they have had over the past 3 months, even when they are being done over the phone. I would’ve thought if there was a boom it would have been in the opposite way!

NHS shortages across everywhere right now due to shielding, isolating, positive covid cases and long covid, so getting in locums is standard just for the normal workload.

My friend (who is a midwife) said January to March rates at sky high from first lockdown. She’s actually worried about if they will have enough delivery space. Have also had to advise women they have to have a couple back up hospitals in case there’s is full/and basically not to have expectations of water births etc. She did say it seems to have tampered off though after March.. maybe due to financial/health uncertainty x

Lockdown nephew arrived safely early hours of this morning 🎉 apparently the maternity dept was heaving!

@Missingyoupapum

I had my son in Oct (got pregnant just before the pandemic) and as we were discharged got a stern talking to by the midwife to sort contraception ASAP as we still didn’t know the affects of COVID in babies so to avoid pregnancy as much as possible.

What the ACTUAL

@Buttercupcup congrats!!!!