The pandemic baby boom no one saw coming

Pregnancies are up more than 5 per cent in NSW and Victoria as some couples forge ahead with plans for a family while others find they have too much time on their hands in lockdown.

Ogi Askovic and Lilian Zuniga Pino will contribute to Australia’s baby boom: “We decided we couldn’t wait anymore.” Louie Douvis

Ute Junker

Jul 30, 2021 – 1.06pm

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Ogi Askovic and his wife, Lilian Zuniga Pino, were not about to let a pandemic interfere with their plans to start a family. The couple are sanguine about the fact that their first child, due in November will enter a world still struggling with COVID-19.

“The world is facing problems anyway, apart from this disease,” Askovic says. “There is good and bad in the world, and the baby will just have to figure it out.”