{"id":34607,"date":"2022-03-23T05:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34607"},"modified":"2022-03-23T05:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:18:04","slug":"covid-did-trigger-a-baby-boom-official-data-shows-1-5-uptick-in-live-births-in-2021-bucking-decade-long-declining-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/covid-did-trigger-a-baby-boom-official-data-shows-1-5-uptick-in-live-births-in-2021-bucking-decade-long-declining-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid DID trigger a &#8216;baby boom&#8217;: Official data shows 1.5% uptick in live births in 2021, bucking decade-long declining trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22967\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/baby--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Covid did trigger a &#8216;baby boom&#8217;, according to official statistics that show the birth rate rose for the first time in more than a decade during the first full year of the pandemic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10639193\/Covid-DID-trigger-baby-boom-Official-data-shows-1-5-uptick-live-births-2021.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Covid did trigger a &#8216;baby boom&#8217;, according to official statistics that show the birth rate rose for the first time in more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34608,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34607\/revisions\/34608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}