Early speculation that the Covid-19 pandemic may lead to a baby boom has been turned on its head, with early data showing more of a baby bust – and worsening rates of some adverse outcomes. After a ...

Couples seemed to have been busy during the pandemic. For the first time in seven years, birth rates in the United States increased – albeit by only 1%. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

The birth rate in the United States was essentially unchanged from 2021 to 2022, according to the April 4 National Vital Statistics Reports. Michelle J.K. Osterman, from the National Center for Health ...

It's looking like some Millennials have decided it's finally time to have a kid. In 2021, the United States experienced its first overall increase in the number of births since 2014, after a large ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

The number of babies born each year in the United States has been steadily dropping since the Great Recession of 2008. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit and brought another burst of uncertainty, many ...

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For much of 2020, many American mothers-to-be were hesitant to carry pregnancies to term as COVID-19 vaccines had yet to be developed and distributed, hospitals were filling with infected patients and ...

Births rebounded to pre-pandemic levels in Massachusetts, rising 4 percent in 2021 after plummeting by same margin in 2020, according to new data from the National Center for Health Statistics. More ...

A baby is preterm if born before 37 weeks of gestational age. Preterm births can be caused by health conditions in the birthing parent and can lead to developmental complications in babies. Asian and ...