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You don't need sex to have a kid, actually. There's the adoption process and IVF as well. Both would also technically be "trying for a baby", but people usually are more specific when talking about those.
Which just means sex is even more besides the point of having a baby so no need to be so weird about it.
That said It’s pretty important in sex education to acknowledge that babies can result from PIV sex.
Do you know how many years it takes to adopt a kid, assuming that you actually do get to adopt one and aren't turned down?
That was exactly my point. It absolutely qualifies as "trying to/working on having a kid", definitely as much or more so than tracking cycles for unprotected sex. Similar for the IVF process.
It's work and it's not easy.
Making a kid probably takes a year (<3 months to try and conceive, 9 months for pregnancy) or so, unless you have issues with fertility. Adoption can take, like, a decade, assuming that you are considered a suitable adoptive parent in the first place. (I'm pretty sure that many places discriminate against disabled people here, and almost everywhere you have to be married.)