Birth Rates in America Since COVID

What did COVID really do to birth rates? Was there an increase in babies due to the pandemic or not?

Sources: 

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-caused-a-baby-bump-when-experts-expected-a-drop-heres-why/ 
• https://apple.news/A-r2h0xy-RTOLku7LIcj2lA 
• https://news.gallup.com/poll/511238/americans-preference-larger-families-highest-1971.aspx
• https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_NORC_Topline_EconQuestionsMarch2023.pdf 
• https://www.nber.org/papers/w30000 

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