Selected natality data from 2020 to 2023 are presented to highlight trends.Kathleen Rice SimpsonKathleen Rice Simpson is a Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, Saint Louis, MO, and Editor-in-Chief, MCN. Dr. Simpson can be reached at krsimpson@prodigy.net...
Choose a region: United States With a population of more than 330 million people, the United States is the third most populous country in the world. The U.S. is considered a demographically advanced society, with low fertility and mortality rates, although its birth rate is slightly higher th...
In the United States in 1800, the average woman of childbearing age would have seven children over the course of their lifetime. As factors such as technology, hygiene, medicine and education improved, women were having fewer children than before, reaching just two children per woman in 1940....
Paid leave policy continues to be heatedly debated in the United States, with its potential impact on child development often cited as a reason for support, but with limited empirical evidence. This paper fills this gap by examining the effects of paid maternity leave on children’s long-term ...
Long-term trends in maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) for all states by racial and ethnic groups were estimated. Objective To quantify trends in MMRs (maternal deaths per 100 000 live births) by state for 5 mutually exclusive racial and ethnic groups using a bayesian extension of the ...
Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the ...
The sex ratio of white births was consistently higher than that for nonwhite births—a finding which is consistent with earlier studies. Part of the racial differences can perhaps be explained by differences in socioeconomic environment. For the moment, the differential white-nonwhite sex ratio point...
Intended home births (all) 12.86 (178/138,368) 4.08 (3.45–4.82) <.0001 CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio. Grünebaum. The impact of birth settings on pregnancy outcomes in the United States. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2023. To date, there have been no adequate randomized clinical trials...
In 2018, 17 percent of all births in the United States occurred to women of advanced maternal age (AMA.) While the outcomes of AMA pregnancies have been examined extensively, the drivers behind increasing rates of AMA pregnancies in the United States are less understood. Some scholars have asse...
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