Lockdown triggers baby boom, obstetricians report
Medicare figures show pregnancy testing skyrocketed a couple of months post-lockdown, they write in the MJA
Australia has just experienced a ‘baby boom’ following the first round of enforced national togetherness in the first wave of COVID-19, doctors reveal.
The team from Children’s Hospital at Westmead say an additional 11,000 babies were due to be born in first few months of 2021 as a result of the initial lockdowns in March and April last year.
