Teens, Twins, and More
Would you have guessed that more than 2500 US teens had twins in 2010? Learn more about teen births and twin births in the National data section.
New Classroom Edition of The Business of Being Born
The classroom edition of The Business of Being Born has been released! Click here for more information and to order the DVD and package.
More Business of Being Born
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein continue their provocative and entertaining exploration of the modern maternity care system in this all-new four part DVD series.
Birth by the Numbers
Gene Declercq, PhD, Professor of Maternal and Child Health at Boston University, presents jaw-dropping statistics about birth in the United States. Explore the tabs above for more U.S. and international data.
Watch Birth by the Numbers
In the short movie “Birth by the Numbers,” Gene Declercq, PhD, Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, presents sobering statistics about birth in the United States. Providing credible data-based evidence, this 20-minute film debunks popular myths about what’s driving the United States cesarean rate increase.
Coming Soon to Birth by the Numbers!
The Birth by the Numbers website will be introducing a new blog feature, where you can follow the latest findings from the Listening to Mothers Survey. Check back in April 2013 for the launch!
Spotlight On…
There’s a new report under the International tab on global overuse and underuse of cesarean section. This is an interesting attempt to quantify the disparities in use of this procedure across high-resource and lower-resource countries. Take a look!
