I mean. There are valid things to critique about the emphasis Bujold as an author places on fecundity and parenthood. But lack of consistency is not one of those problems.

And Cordelia spent the first year of her marriage daydreaming about having a whole pack of Barrayaran children, that was half of what let her reconcile herself to moving there, so. Yeah. You can't even blame that dream on Barrayar, if you want to blame it on a planet blame it on Beta's dystopian meritocratic population policy.