1. Each year in the United States, there are approximately six million pregnancies. This means that at any one time, about 4% of women in the United States are pregnant.
2. About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
3. Approximately
500,000 babies are born each year in the United States
to teenage mothers.4. The largest
baby ever born weighed more than 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia, and weighed an astounding 19.2 pounds at birth.
5. Approximately
one in three babies in the United States is now delivered by
cesarean section. The number of cesarean sections in the Un ...
