The year-long lockdown saw many families spend time together and if Google search trends are anything to go by, Kenya’s newborn numbers must have increased sporadically.

Of the top 10 searches in the last 12 months “ how to make babies” and “how to become pregnant” top the charts, revealing how Kenyans spent time while in ‘lockdown’.

The tight work schedules as well as long distance relationships mean many couples hardly spend time together, hurting prospects of having babies.

For those working in cities, fatigue is a major factor since many arrive home late and must leave early the next morning for work leaving them with little time to sleep in readiness for the next day’s work.

Spending time together made many families enjoy time together eating and drinking often as a family, leading to many to gain weight.

This is best exemplified by the number of searches on how to lose weight and how to lose belly fat, thanks to closure of gyms and reduced “to-and-fro” sojourns to work and back.

Kenyans’ peculiar habit of cashing in from a crisis situation saw many search for ingredients and affordable means to make a sanitiser.

Sanitiser remains one of the most sought-after product in the Kenyan market, with alcohol makers getting a new lifeline by making sanitiser for sale.

Surprisingly, a high number of Kenyans also searched on how to gain weight while others sought natural methods to rid themselves of pimples before going back to work.

The scare of contracting coronavirus witnessed a keen interest on how to prevent coronavirus searches, with a considerable amount of searches being dedicated to how to make a mask.

On current issues, many appear to have lost tabs on curfew hours that they had to conduct regular searches to enable them conform to set regulations.

English premier soccer remains a popular search for many people as well as the search for jobs.