None of the pro-natalist policies work. The tax credits and the subsidies don’t work. Not in Hungary, Singapore - nowhere really long run. So you need a little out of the box thinking. And so ‘the husband stitch’ presents itself. Male doctors will tell you in whispers over drinks that after a woman delivers her first baby, they might do the husband a solid by stitching things in such a way that he will be even more enthusiastic on his next go round. This is a very serious thing for the social scientists to get to work on. Work clandestinely with the doctors performing these stitch jobs, and see how many more babies come into the world. You never know, and the birth rate collapse requires an all hands on deck strategy.