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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, and I think there are two reasons:

1) Increased work from home. We're trying for a third right now, and I just noted this to my husband. If we were still both commuting to the office, 30-40 mins twice a day, every day, five days a week, I don't know if we would have had the bandwidth. I didn't really have kids before the pandemic (I was still on maternity leave with my oldest when the pandemic hit) but that might be giving people the extra wiggle room they need.

2) I literally only know one peer in my UMC bubble who had a surprise child in their 20s, and none as teenagers (though I'm sure there were some abortions). But in the last three years there have been THREE "surprise" third kids. [b]Perhaps people get a bit sloppy with the birth control as they're approaching 40, especially if it wasn't super easy for them to get pregnant the first time or two? [/b]I don't know if that's a new phenomenon, but it's a pretty big percentage of the 3 kid families I know. Maybe we're an anomaly. [/quote]x

I hear this a lot. Several well educated friends who were able to avoid pregnancy well into their 30s just SHOCKED to find themselves pregnant around 40 or up. They weren't using BC because they thought they were "too old" to get pregnant. [/quote]

Probably from reading websites like DCUM where some unhinged people scream, “it must be donor eggs!” every time someone over 40 has a baby.[/quote]

Pretty sure people only say that on here for 45+[/quote]

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