pandemic baby

noun

A person born during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2023).

Meanings

nounpandemic baby (plural pandemic babies)

plural pandemic babies

  1. A person born during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2023).

    While this disappointment is not enormous, and many pandemic babies were quite sheltered in the first months of life, it speaks to plenty of dreams deferred.

    2023 December 11, Susan Cartmell, Peggy O'Connor, The Perpetual Pivot: Ministry in the Pandemic and Beyond, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 76
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    But what's clear now is that the first wave of pandemic babies — covid babies, coronial, pandemic-kids, whatever you want to call the micro-generation of children conceived, carried, and born during the covid-19 crisis is making its way into the world, and their parents have experienced pregnancy in a way that few others in modern history have.

    2023 June 30, Cynthia “Salonista" Kosciuczyk, We Endured: Essays of our Lives During Quarantine, AuthorHouse, →ISBN

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