There will be no COVID baby boom in the United States. In fact, a decrease in childbirth is expected, with existential fear prevailing over hormones and boredom. Similar downward trends occurred during the 2008 recession and the 1918 Spanish flu. Now experiencing their second economic crash, 15% of millennials are less interested in having children due to COVID-19. Meanwhile, others made the decision long before the pandemic. On this edition of the Embodied series, host Anita Rao talks with three women about their reasons for living child-free. Rao’s guests are: Uriah Rex, a jet mechanic at Raleigh-Durham International Airport Samhita Mukhopadhyay , the executive editor of Teen Vogue and co-editor of “Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America” Sarah Deavitt , a certified holistic nutritionist Many women are medically unable to bear children. Trans men and nonbinary people face systemic medical discrimination and oftentimes experience gender dysphoria during