Saturday, October 18, 2008

Making Babies in NC

Here are some interesting stats from the North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics on births in NC in 2007.

Youngest Mother10
Oldest Mother53
Youngest Father14
Oldest Father76
Sets of Twins2,135
Sets of Triplets63
Sets of Quadruplets5
Sets of Quintuplets0
Most Births Occurred onSept 14487
Fewest Births Occurred onDec 25208
Day of Week Most Births OccurredFriday21,207
Largest Live Birth14 lbs. 0 ozs.
Total Births130,886


Curious that the fewest number of births occured on Christmas Day.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Katharine made a good point last night that there are probably no C-sections scheduled for Dec 25, which probably counts in large part for the birthrate dip that day. I sure hope that 14-lb baby was a C-section! You should add that these stats are only for 2007. Neat post!