How the pandemic changed family planning While experts predicted a “baby bust” in the wake of the pandemic, the Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine is seeing a boom in the demand for fertility treatments By Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine May 4, 2021 Created for After five years of trying to have a baby on their own and through IVF, North Vancouver couple Sara and Jaimie Rogers were frustrated and almost ready to throw in the towel. Then COVID-19 hit—and their resolve to start a family grew stronger. “During the pandemic, we really saw the importance of family,” Sara says. “It made us realize how much more we wanted to try until we had a kid.”