Covid 19 coronavirus: Lockdown baby boom - is it a thing?
29 Jan, 2021 07:09 AM
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Emma Russell is a health reporter for the New Zealand Heraldemma.russell@nzherald.co.nz
Some New Zealand hospitals are reporting a baby boom following lockdown; one says the number of women at its maternity ward has increased by 44 per cent since last year.
Middlemore Hospital was seeing a daily average of 34 new patients to its maternity ward between December 2019 and January 2020. This summer the number has jumped to 49.
Middlemore Hospital obstetrician Dr Sarah Corbett told the Herald the past four weeks had felt really busy, and every delivery room was full.