just a thought, I was pondering what the birthrate will be 6 to 9 months from now will be...

[Javaman]

will we see a dramatic drop?

I'm calculating from March forward.

[HotTeaBag]

1. My neighbors' Daughter is expecting her third child

sometime in that timeframe.

Folks had to do something during lockdown - Netflix only goes so far.

Although I think there will be a slight uptick dating back to the early days and then a drop back down once people realized the severity of our collective situation.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Some expect an increase

because people were under stay at home orders for six weeks or more. With nothing on late night TV but reruns it drove couples into the bedroom.

[Mariana]

10. Birth control still works, though. nt.

[SoonerPride]

3. NYT covered this: Don't Expect a Baby Boom

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/coronavirus-baby-boom.html

Don’t Expect a Quarantine Baby Boom

Not only do disasters have little effect, if any, on birthrates, the coronavirus pandemic will probably discourage couples from having children, experts say.

Any time people are stuck at home for blizzards, shutdowns and blackouts, the speculation seems to start: Will there be a baby boom in nine months?

This time, with quarantine orders keeping millions of people inside to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the answer is clear, demographers say. Don’t expect a lot of newborns in the next year.

That may disappoint those who are worried about the United States’ birthrate, which has steadily declined since the Great Recession and put the country close to an overall population decline. In the short term, as the pandemic wrecks swaths of the economy, the coronavirus will probably give couples even more cause not to have children, experts said.

“I really don’t think they’re saying, ‘Oh, let’s have a baby in the midst of the greatest epidemic that the country has faced in 100 years,’” said Kenneth Johnson, a demographer at the University of New Hampshire.

[marmar]

7. That was my thought....people will be hesitant to bring a child into a world in crisis.

[jimfields33]

4. Supposed to be a birth boom

But anecdotally I only know two pregnancy and this was pre-virus. One gave birth beginning of May and the other next week or so. I haven’t heard any pregnancy announcement since the virus began. Of course that doesn’t mean there won’t be one.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Better to have a decline

[genxlib]

6. This is assuming

That couples could stand each other after a few days together.

I am betting for more divorces than births.

[EqualityNow]

8. Heh at least it's not pre-internet and pre-Television age..

With nothing else to do, there'd probably be a population boom.

[dalton99a]

9. There will be a baby bust

[Demsrule86]

11. No, all this at home stuff...three are pregnant in my family.