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The baby boom that never was: France sees sharp decline in 'lockdown babies'


The baby boom that never was: France sees sharp decline in ‘lockdown babies’
France 24
22/01/2021
Louise NORDSTROM
© AFP - Martin Bureau
When France went into its first Covid-19 lockdown last March, jokes about an imminent explosion of “lockdown babies” inundated social media. But nine months later, fresh statistics show that instead of a baby boom, France seems to be experiencing an unusually vast baby drought.
“Lockdown babies” (
bébés du confinement) and “the Covid generation” (
génération Covid) headlined many a joke when the French were confined to their homes for two whole months back in March, and for another four weeks in the month of November. The time many French couples would finally be able to spend together by being restricted to their homes seemed to offer up endless opportunities to reproduce. The fact that the sale of pregnancy tests shot up by 37 percent just four weeks into the first lockdow ....

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