Medical Experts Uncover Factors Behind MAGA Birth Surge as Karoline Leavitt, Katie Miller, and Usha Vance Share Pregnancy News

Political commentators have coined the term ‘MAGA baby boom’ to describe a recent surge in pregnancies among women associated with the Trump administration.

Usha Vance, aged 40, recently announced that she is expecting her fourth child, a boy, due in late July. This makes her the third individual linked to the Trump administration to share pregnancy news recently, and notably, she is the first second lady in 150 years to do so.

Her announcement follows closely on the heels of Katie Miller, 34, the wife of Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, who revealed she is also expecting her fourth child. Just days before that, Karoline Leavitt, 28, the White House press secretary, announced her second pregnancy, which will add a baby girl to her family.

While the simultaneous pregnancies might simply be coincidental, experts suggest it’s not unusual for women in close social circles to become pregnant around the same time. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as getting pregnant ‘in sync.’

Dr. Carole Lieberman, a leading forensic psychiatrist based in Beverly Hills, California, explained to the Daily Mail that such ‘pregnancy clusters’ can be attributed to ‘social contagion,’ which is a shared positive life experience among peers.

According to Dr. Lieberman, the atmosphere within the Trump administration, characterized by optimism and forward-thinking, might foster an environment where women feel encouraged to expand their families.

‘On top of this, both President Trump and Elon Musk are big proponents of women having babies because of the declining birthrate in America. 

‘So, unconsciously, being surrounded by these messages [appears to] have had an impact.’

Usha Vance, 40, announced yesterday that she is pregnant and expecting her fourth child. She is at least the third Trump administration insider to announce a pregnancy recently

Leavitt’s baby is due in May 2026, while Vance’s is due about two months later. Miller’s is also due within the coming months, although the sex has not been revealed.

In an Instagram post revealing her pregnancy, Leavitt said expecting a child was the ‘closest thing to Heaven on Earth’.

And she thanked President Donald Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for their support. 

In an interview with Fox News, she said: ‘Nearly all my West Wing colleagues have babies and young children, so we all really support one another as we tackle raising our families while working for the greatest president ever.’

Leavitt also congratulated Vance on her pregnancy yesterday, writing on X: ‘Congratulations to our great Vice President and lovely Second Lady Usha Vance.’ 

Dr Sujatha Reddy, an OB-GYN in Atlanta, Georgia, told Daily Mail that it was possible the supportive atmosphere in the White House combined with a sense of optimism about the future may have led to the pregnancies.

She told Daily Mail: ‘I love hearing that [Leavitt’s colleagues are supportive] as I think the workplace can be difficult for new moms and families. If you feel like you have support, that may push the decision a little bit because you feel you will be able to keep your job and raise a baby.

‘Oftentimes, there may be a pregnancy cluster in friendship circles or a co-working space because women are at the same stage of life.

‘They may see a colleague who is pregnant too and think, “I want to try that”. Someone may see a baby and think, “Oh my god, what an adorable baby!”, and maybe that means they decide that they want to have a baby too.’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed she is pregnant with her second child on December 26 in a post on Instagram. She said a child was the ‘closest thing to Heaven on Earth’

Katie Miller, pictured above with husband and White House deputy chief of staff for policy advisor Stephen Miller, revealed on New Year’s Eve that she was pregnant. She is shown above in the post where she revealed the pregnancy, attending President Donald Trump’s New Year’s Eve bash

Dr Reddy added that women working closely together may also have children at the same time too because they feel they have social support. 

She told Daily Mail: ‘Getting pregnant at the same time allows you to choose the same schools, same playgrounds and share childcare.’

A 2014 study on 33,000 female co-workers across 6,000 employees found that over the year after a colleague gave birth, the number of women experiencing a first pregnancy doubled. It showed this effect, however, declined after two years.

Today’s ‘MAGA baby boom’ is not be the first example of multiple women getting pregnant at the same time in a workplace. 

In one case last year, 14 labor and delivery nurses at a hospital in Wisconsin all became pregnant at about the same time. Hospital executives called it an ‘incredible full-circle moment’.

Last year, six on-air anchors and reporters at CNBC also all became pregnant at the same time, with one of the reporters telling PEOPLE there was ‘something powerful’ in getting pregnant together, adding ‘you’re not doing this alone’.

Many women working together becoming pregnant, termed a ‘pregnancy cluster’, has been recorded before. Last year, 14 nurses working at a hospital in Wisconsin all fell pregnant at about the same time (shown above)

At a hospital in Missouri, a total of 36 nurses in its neonatal intensive care unit also became pregnant. Shown above are eight of the nurses

And, in 2021, 36 neonatal intensive care nurses at a children’s hospital in Missouri all also became pregnant at about the same time, saying that the pandemic and their workplace had brought them all closer together.

Dr Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist, said baby booms in workplaces were not unheard of

Dr Reddy said that, in her experience at her clinic, she has seen groups of friends in their mid to late 20s and early 30s get pregnant at around the same time. She said the clusters were often about three or four pregnancies at the same time. 

She told Daily Mail: ‘They’ve been to each other’s weddings, have been bridesmaids together, spent most of their lives together, and it often comes down to just the right age, right timing. 

‘One might be on a second baby, one on a first baby, it might be coincidence or the social drive of wanting a child.’ 

The recent MAGA baby boom comes amid calls from the Trump administration for a nationwide ‘baby boom’, with supporters urging more couples to have children in order to ‘save society’.

In Trump’s first term, from 2017 to 2021, America’s birth rate fell seven percent overall from 11.84 births to 11.04 births per 1,000 people

Under Biden, they dropped again, declining four percent to reach a record low of 10.67 per 1,000 in 2024, the latest year that data is available.

But Trump, 79, who has five children, has called himself the ‘fertilization president’, and sought to help boost fertility rates by inking a deal that slashed the price of in-vitro fertilization drugs, which officials say could save patients up to $2,200 per cycle.

There has been a push for people to have more children in recent years. Simone and Malcolm Collins are among those who say they are having more children in order to ‘save society’

Vice President JD Vance has also called for Americans to have more children, saying at a March for Life rally in 2024: ‘I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them’.

Elon Musk, a prominent former Trump ally who is reported to have 14 children, has warned that falling birth rates are the ‘biggest danger civilization faces by far’.

Some women are embracing the push for more babies, however, and declared that they are now seeking to have more children to reverse this societal trend.

Among them is Simone Collins, late 30s, from Pennsylvania, and her husband Malcolm, who have four children together via IVF. They grabbed headlines in 2023 after revealing they had used genetic screening to select desirable characteristics in their offspring.

Others include popular Catholic writer Peachy Keenan, a mother-of-five, who lives in deep blue California but says she was inspired by Trump to have more children.

She said, reported the Daily Telegraph: ‘To save our country, we need to get out and push the babies out, and to do it in mass scale.

‘When did raising your own baby become this political taboo?’