Covid Babies

[Sunisshining12]

Do you think there will be many? Perhaps a low birth rate this year? Smaller school classes?

Would anyone actually actively TTC during the pandemic? Intrigued to hear others views.

I'm finally pregnant thanks to the lockdown making me able to de-stress enough as I was forced away from work which meant the lack of stress re-regulated my cycles.

I'm 12 weeks pregnant, I'm 36 years old so can't wait forever. We were trying pre covid anyway.

@BreathlessCommotion

Surely it's only first time babies. No one spends lockdown with their children and thought "well this was a great idea, let's have more!"

Exactly. As a PP says my Google search may or may not consist of 'do boarding schools take 5 year olds?'.

All in all, if you were thinking of waiting to TTC until after a special holiday or event, those things are not going to happen got a long time. So if I didn't already have a kid driving me insane, I'd think I may as well get on with it. It's not like I'll be missing out on holidays and nights out is it!

I'm TTC at the moment. I had a miscarriage in April. Still pressing on because of my age and not having the luxury of time to wait.

@Tomatoandbasil

My pregnant is not my first but is a very welcome surprise after a long time TTC and we had given up. But I loved lockdown with my older child (even though both DH and I were juggling full time jobs and home-schooling) so I wouldn’t have been put off by that anyway.

Congratulations, how lovely :)

I find it really tasteless when people say that they can’t understand why anyone would TTC just now

For those of us who actually had babies in lockdown it is really insensitive to what is already a concerning time

They are lockdown babies, not Covid babies.

I’m pregnant with my first baby & due in Feb next year. We’d been TTC since Jan & when COVID came about we paused for a short time but it quickly became apparent that it was going to be around for a long time & we decided to continue as it didn’t seem realistic to put our plans on hold for a year+ (although who knows how long it will be).
There were lots of factors we considered like our ages, the fact we’d like to allow ourselves time to hopefully have 2, how careful we could be during the pandemic (we have both worked from home throughout) & lots of other things. Definitely put a lot of thought into it & it felt like the right decision for us.

But we’re not in lockdown now, we’re in a Covid pandemic, so I wouldn’t exactly say it’s tasteless for someone to have that opinion. It’s just indicative of the time imo nothing more. For some, the fear and worry over covid is enough to put ttc on hold, irregardless of age & circumstance. I wouldn’t call those people tasteless. Everyone has different levels of anxiety over covid. It’s personal choice.

Interesting how there’s a lot of first time pregnancies, but not many second or third lol!!

My boss made a joke about my pregnancy being a lockdown baby, made it clear that this was prelock down, during lock down I would have gladly tied by tubes after wks with a 2yr old’

I wonder how many of those who became FTMs during lockdown will go on to have a second. Its a strong no from me 😂

Don't mind the term covid babies. We have loads in my circle. Mine was technically conceived pre covid.

In all honesty I probably wouldn't have had mine if I'd known what was coming but then it wasn't actually that bad in that as a second baby I wasn't expecting to have DH at scans and my hospital didn't have as many restrictions as others.

I was pregnant and conceived before Covid, a miscarriage early lockdown then conceived again believing this was all going to be over well before baby arrives.

Oh and we have 2 DC already with us in lockdown. This child still much wanted.

@Sunisshining12 for the record imho you are very small minded and obviously struggle pitying yourself in other people's shoes. I don't know what you set out to achieve by starting your this thread apart from stirring the pot. Everyone has their reasons which none are of your business. If you can't empathise why start a thread? I take it you've never experienced difficulties with conception as from the small minded comments you've made indicate. Imho you lack a huge amount of empathy and are quite rude.

I was TTC before, for just over a year. Figured it wasn't going to happen tbh.

If I'd been a first go unicorn, I would have given birth at the beginning of lockdown. That would have been pretty awful.

I gave birth at the start of lockdown. It was pretty awful.

I find the whole ‘oh I guess you had nothing better to do’ pretty offensive. We had been ttc for a year and a half and had just been out on the IVF wait list. Trust me, we were having plenty sex before lockdown trying for a much desired baby. It makes me sad that people will somehow think I’m having a baby because we had nothing else to do!!

If we had stopped ttc when should we have re started?? I’m 36, husband 7 years older. Yes, it’s not the perfect time to have a child but I do suspect a lot of the people saying that they would wait or why would people actively ttc probably already have their nuclear family.

I gave birth as we went into lockdown. It was very stressful and nobody came near my baby in person for months.

Due to multiple mc and my ancient age, we’re TTC again already. I can’t risk missing the only window I have to grow my family.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t fucking terrifying.

Im pregnant with my 3rd (although my first 2 are nearly 17 and 13) we had been trying since july 2019 and carried on trying throughout the pandemic. I am wfh and love it i can nip to the loo as much as i need without colleagues being suspicious

I paused for about 4 months, but I really dont have time on my sofa so restarted a couple of months ago.

Time on my side

2nd baby here 🙋🏻‍♀️ due feb, but as first was prem it was always going to be anxious for us, covid or not.

Social distancing on the labour ward will be fun then if everyone else has been getting busy too...!

I made light of it earlier but having my 1st at the start of lockdown, then having absolutely no support throughout has made me never, ever want another. The experience has been awful. I paid an atronomical amount to have a IUD fitted privately to be sure (as much as you can) that it wont happen again. I think ive been effected deeply and negatively

It's worse for first timers as there's less support and less opportunity to build up a network

Pregnant with my 2nd and due in February. DD has just turned 2 and I was juggling working from home with looking after her during lockdown (whilst DH got to work out of the home, lucky sod!)

This pregnancy was conceived between mine and DH’s birthdays so more of a birthday baby than a lockdown baby (hate that term though as we had more than enough on our plate than to be lazing around during lockdown!). Much wanted pregnancy though as we always wanted a small-ish gap between siblings

DH is already planning to go for the snip though! 😂

@Letsallscreamatthesistene

I made light of it earlier but having my 1st at the start of lockdown, then having absolutely no support throughout has made me never, ever want another. The experience has been awful. I paid an atronomical amount to have a IUD fitted privately to be sure (as much as you can) that it wont happen again. I think ive been effected deeply and negatively

@Letsallscreamatthesistene - that’s so sad to hear. I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been to have a new baby and no support, and be essentially locked up. People feel traumatised just from lockdown & from covid, let alone with a new born. Fingers crossed it gets better