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Nine months after lockdown new statistics have revealed Southern Downs residents could still be waiting for their pandemic baby boom.
Both Warwick and Stanthorpe came out reasonably unaffected by a predicted birthing increase as Darling Downs Health Service data compared 2021 birthrates to those pre-lockdown..
According to a DDHS spokeswoman, 14 Warwick babies were born in January 2021, only two more than the year before.
As of February 16, there were 8 babies born in February so far.
In Stanthorpe, the gap was more considerable.
10 babies were born in January 2021 compared to 2020’s 7.
The number of February births had also already matched February 2020.