heidi klum. britney spears, they both had babies around the same time. we did. and then it went up even in 2007, you everybody following brad pitt, angelina jolie and, me and and started having and we had the number of births of any year in history there was a belief that this could become a real baby boom because the millennials were just hitting their prime childbearing so rising birth rates, the millennials, a larger generation turning into their mid-to-late is it going to be a baby boom? obviously it wasn't. it was a baby bust almost every year for the past 15 years, the number babies born in the united states has fallen. and one of the results from, 4.3 million babies down to 3.6 million. and this year last year, 2023 might end up being lower, even than 2020. the pandemic year. here's important measure of the total fertility rate is a number most people are familiar with. 2.1 babies per woman is replacement level, at which a population will remain steady without immigration. we ticked above that again, thanks to brad pitt. tom and me. we ticked above that i